Comment by fc417fc802
12 hours ago
I'm not giving a small time software vendor proprietary access to my machine at that level. I honestly think that anyone who accepts it must be woefully uninformed about the risks involved.
I'm already salty about the binary blobs required by various pieces of firmware.
People just don't care. Even Stallman is okay with a microwave with closed-source firmware as long as it doesn't try to update its firmware.
For most people, a computer is just another appliance. They don't consider the security implications that this appliance can leak credit cards and such.