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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

How is systemd somehow taking away freedoms at the behest of corporations who asked such a thing?
UEFI is an open standard, buddy. Microsoft is the only player fucking that up
"Trusted Computing" has existed in the very hardware you own and run for almost 30 years now. Literally nobody but cellphone makers use it in the way you describe. Seems you’re still using it though, so nobody seems to have made the apocalyptic decisions that bring your fearful future to bear.
A “Trusted Computing” framework - and this is how I know you don’t understand any of this - is only present. It takes software to interact with it to “take your freedoms away” as you put it. It’s just sitting there otherwise. Nobody even needs to interact with it. You’re so out of touch with this that you’re angry at the wrong side of it, and you don’t even know it.
“…we just provide the tools…”. MY GOD. Where do I even start with this? I can name about a hundred different FOSS tools that break encryption. You mad at the people who made the FOSS encryption tools, or the ones who the FOSS tools to decrypt it?
The only people who want this are people make and produce hardware platforms that ship out into the world so they can ensure they are T2B secure. It seems you don’t know much about security, so I’ll let you in a little secret…(If it claims to be secure, it means there are hardware controls in place)

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tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

How is systemd somehow taking away freedoms at the behest of corporations who asked such a thing?

RedHat putting their thumb on the scale providing full time engineers on this project to gain market share and become the defacto standard that they control doesn’t sound like a problem? How do you feel about what chromium is doing to the web?

UEFI is an open standard, buddy. Microsoft is the only player fucking that up

Microsoft is the only player “fucking that up” right. And the other corporations have some sort of god-given goodness to them that make it impossible for them to follow suit?

“Trusted Computing” has existed in the very hardware you own and run for almost 30 years now. Literally nobody but cellphone makers use it in the way you describe. Seems you’re still using it though, so nobody seems to have made the apocalyptic decisions that bring your fearful future to bear.

Nobody but (half of the entire consumer device market) use it in the way described, and this company comes in offering tools to do the same thing to the other half, and you don’t see the problem?

A “Trusted Computing” framework - and this is how I know you don’t understand any of this - is only present. It takes software to interact with it to “take your freedoms away” as you put it.

Software that these people are developing.

“…we just provide the tools…”. MY GOD. Where do I even start with this? I can name about a hundred different FOSS tools that break encryption. You mad at the people who made the FOSS encryption tools, or the ones who the FOSS tools to decrypt it?

I’m wary of the people that provide turn key solutions to deploy it at scale

The only people who want this are people make and produce hardware platforms that ship out into the world so they can ensure they are T2B secure. It seems you don’t know much about security, so I’ll let you in a little secret…(If it claims to be secure, it means there are hardware controls in place)

And if the user (that’s what we call the person who owns the device, if you don’t know much about these things) doesn’t want it?

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- just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  How do you address mail to your bunker? Is there e like…a sublevel addition or something?
  
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  - tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I unfortunately accept the reality of our corporate dominated technology landscape, I’m just confused about your downright enthusiasm for the same.
    
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    just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    🤣
    
    There’s zero corporate about it. You’re actually in denial and possibly crazy. My God.
    
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