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Comment by matheusmoreira

21 hours ago

> I don't see an obvious argument for why should enters into it here

This threatens to destroy everything the word "hacker" stands for. Everything this site is about. Gone.

I can't even get people on Hacker News to care about this. It's over.

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shadowgovt  21 hours ago

Hackers will be fine. If anything, this kind of measure-countermeasure foolishness from corporations gives them a really meaty problem to dig into.

It's just very unclear that the force of law is the right tool for the job to address that problem.

(Also, people on Hacker News can care about a lot of things simultaneously. One of them can be that adding the government's cudgel to the problem may very well make it worse; do we really want the government having to well-define things like "protocol" and "communication" to craft that law?)

  • matheusmoreira  20 hours ago

    > It's just very unclear that the force of law is the right tool for the job to address that problem.

    Remote hardware attestation is cryptograhic proof of corporate ownership of the machine.

    They're using cryptography against us. Everyone here knows how devastating cryptography is. Cryptography is subversive. It can defeat police, judges, governments, militaries, spies.

    I'm actually worried that the force of law might turn out to be not nearly enough.

    > do we really want the government having to well-define things like "protocol" and "communication" to craft that law?

    Just ban corporations from using remote attestation to discriminate against us. If they try something else, ban it too. Don't even ban the technology, it's useful to us when used with our own keys. Just stop this abuse and discrimination.