- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
"When we let corporations decide who is allowed to speak, they act with a mixture of carelessness and self-interest, becoming off-the-books deputies of authoritarian regimes and corrupt, powerful elites.
Alas, we made the wrong tradeoff with Trusted Computing. For the past twenty years, Trusted Computing has been creeping into our devices, albeit in somewhat denatured form. "
“As I wrote last week, giving manufacturers the power to decide how your computer is configured, overriding your own choices, is a bad tradeoff - the worst tradeoff, a greased slide into terminal enshittification”
Yup, TC was weakened, and so far not powerful enough to hurt, but it’s still a threat.
DRM is everywhere in some form or another, again usually not strong enough to stop determined attackers but enough to create a barrier that, one that can be raised as needed in an “emergency”.