Comment by bitwize

Sorry, folks, the good times are over. The future of computing is a signed, attested chain of trust from boot firmware through application code, on all platforms people are likely to use -- and remote attestation with user identification if you wish to connect to the network. End users love it because it prevents or reduces all sorts of malicious activity, from bank fraud down to online game cheating, with little to no effort on their part; platform vendors love it because it provides a moat; service providers (banks and such) love it for the assurance that their clients are uncompromised; and governments love it because it lets them surveil users and developers.

The only ones who hate it are devs. And who really cares about a bunch of nerds?

Remember, general purpose computing really boils down in security terms to "arbitrary code execution" -- a bad thing in the infosec field.