Comment by enriquto
3 hours ago
half of the founders of this thing come from Microsoft. I suppose this makes the answer to your question obvious.
3 hours ago
half of the founders of this thing come from Microsoft. I suppose this makes the answer to your question obvious.
that's a silver lining
the anti-user attestation will at least be full of security holes, and likely won't work at all
Dunno about the others but Pottering has proven himself to deliver software against the grain.
You think?
It took us nearly a decade and a half to unfuck the pulseaudio situation and finally arrive at a simple solution (pipewire).
SystemD has a lot more people refining it down but a clean (under the hood) implementation probably won't be witnessed in my lifetime.
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I thought he had proven that he leaves before the project is complete and functioning according to all the promises made.
My thoughts exactly. We're probably witnessing the beginning of the end of linux users being able to run their own kernels. Soon:
- your bank won't let you log in from an "insecure" device.
- you won't be able to play videos on an "insecure" device.
- you won't be able to play video games on an "insecure" device.
And so on, and so forth.
Unfortunately the parent commenter is completely right.
The attestation portion of those systems is happening on locked down devices, and if you gain ownership of the devices they no longer attest themselves.
This is the curse of the duopoly of iOS and Android.
BankID in Sweden will only run with one of these devices, they used to offer a card system but getting one seems to be impossible these days. So you're really stuck with a mobile device as your primary means of identification for banking and such.
There's a reason that general purpose computers are locked to 720p on Netflix and Disney+; yet AppleTV's are not.
Afaik bankid will actually run as long as you can install play store (IE the device don't need Google certificate), which isn't great but a little bit better than what it could have been.
This is already the world we live in when it comes to the most popular personal computing devices running Linux out there.