Comment by matheusmoreira
3 years ago
> Indeed, you have to go legal about this (what I am exactly doing
That's extremely interesting. Can you tell us more?
> "Interop" alone does not mean that much anything
True.
By "interoperability" I mean being able to have any client connect to any server without discrimination. They should not know or care what software I'm running, only that it speaks the same network protocol. Remote attestation violates this by enumerating approved clients and cryptographically vefifying them.
"Adversarial interoperability" is an even more interesting concept.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
> But don't fool yourself, Big Tech "knows" and will fight it, then expect the worse: they will shadow-hire teams of hackers to destroy your alternative.
I don't expect it to be easy. We're talking about amoral trillion dollar corporations who only work for their bottom lines. I wouldn't be surprised if they killed people over stuff like this. Coca-Cola did.
Behind Big Tech (msft/apple/intel/google/meta/etc), you have blackrock and vanguard, we are talking tens of thousands of billions of $.
There is zero "economic competition" here: only moral values and strategic interests.
Last time I got warnings of "intended violence" was with some vmware zealot.
Shadow-hiring teams of hacker to give hell to Big Tech alternatives is one thing, contract killing/violence is another.
But since we are talking about massively rich trash(or severely mistaken) human beings, it is important to stay alert. They literaly can buy anything they want to.