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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

PC Computers are next
This is why the big deal with TPM
Why TPM is never a removable security device
Why you can’t save your old PC with a usb TPM device,
even though they are low power serial text devices

And TPM itself is just the thin side of the wedge.
It will grow more and more capable as an encrypted instructions processor
Eventually applications will run enough of their code
as encrypted instructions that they will become impossible to pirate.

This means application on your offline computer will be just as revocable as cloud application
and they will no longer be transferable, cryptographically tied to the processor core

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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Here is a taste of the future

You Can’t Jailbreak Your PC
The days of “it’s my hardware, I’ll run what I want” are over.
TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and Microsoft Pluton are forming a closed execution environment.

You can’t replace the bootloader. You can’t flash unsigned firmware. You can’t disable the vendor-approved certificate store.

Try to run an unsigned OS, and it will simply refuse to boot.
Your motherboard no longer listens to you.
It listens to Microsoft and OEMs.

You Will Own Nothing, and Even That Nothing Is Tied to Your Old PC
TPM stores your encryption keys in a non-exportable way.
Your files, apps, and even your OS activation are now bound to your specific machine.

Want to move them to another system?
Too bad. The TPM won’t let you.
Even if you own both devices.

The machine is yours. The data, software, and identity within it are not.

Installing Linux Will Be Illegal (Functionally, If Not Yet Legally)
Secure Boot + Remote Attestation is the death knell for freedom-focused OSes.

Your distro doesn’t carry the "right" signature? Blocked. You modify the kernel for performance or privacy? No longer attested. You write your own OS? You don’t get to boot. It’s not banned in law. It’s banned by cryptographic gatekeeping.

Digital preservation will be technically impossible.

Encrypted execution + hardware-tied software =
No way to archive.
No way to emulate.
No way to restore.

Games, apps, creative tools, all gone when the keys expire or the vendor shuts down.

We won’t just lose software. We’ll lose entire cultural eras.

It’s like that Apple ad crushing musical instruments but for your entire digital life

You Have No Mouth and Can’t Say NO
Vendor lock-in is no longer a commercial strategy.
It’s cryptographic reality.

You can’t deny updates. You can’t run unsigned code. You can’t refuse attestation.

Because your software won’t run without it.

The PC has become a compliance terminal. Saying "no" is no longer supported behavior.

A hardware-enforced, cryptographically sealed cage.

Your freedom to compute is being revoked—quietly, efficiently, irreversibly. The illusion of ownership is maintained only until enforcement becomes total. This isn’t theory. It’s shipping now.

If we don’t fight back, there will be no root access left to reclaim.
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- T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What a fucking bleak run down. But it is the direction things are barreling towards.
  
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  - interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Writing this the warning of Cory Doctorow about an upcoming “War on General Computing” was ringing in my head !
    
    And also this video
    
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
    
    But he doesn’t talk about the TPM and cryptoprocessor threat or the “war on general computing”, it was in another video that I can’t find right now
    
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    T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I remember seeing that ad. It was super depressing. I hate what the tech world is coming to, why my next phone will be a dumb phone, I’m trying to buy dvds and keeping my circa 2017 vehicle running for as long as possible
    
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
But if it doesn’t run Linux I am not going to buy it

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- interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Microsoft is fine if you don’t buy computers anymore
  It won’t miss you in particular
  
  This is what’s going to happen with PCs
  lemmy.ml/post/33992840/20208076
  
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  - Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And the Linux foundation will just sit by letting it happen? Or Valve for that matter, they appear to have anticipated this risk over a decade ago.
    
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    interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yes, Valve saw this possibility back in the days of Windows 8
    
    But look at phones, the supply chains mostly delivery bootloader locked and unlockable devices.
    
    And now the latest windows require TPM 2.0
    
    It requires TPM 2.0 to be married to the CPU, non user removable
    
    Microsoft Pluton is an early version of a crypto processor.
    
    They are putting the pieces in place slowly
    and they have all kinds of good reasons
    “why this isn’t something you should worry about”
    
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    derpgon@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    RISC-V’s time to shine! (IIRC it is open source instruction set).
    
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jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They probably want that, but also at the same time, that would kill software development.

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- floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Only approved AIs and humans carrying a corporately issued developer license will be allowed to develop software.
  
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- interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  They would like it if only their employees were the only priesthood of all software development
  
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