Comment by youarentrightjr
4 hours ago
> Secure boot and attestation both generally require a form of DRM.
They literally don't.
For a decade, I worked on secure boot & attestation for a device that was both:
- firmware updatable - had zero concept or hardware that connected it to anything that could remotely be called a network
Interesting. So what did the attestation say once I (random Internet user) updated the firmware to something I wrote or compiled from another source?
> Interesting. So what did the attestation say once I (random Internet user) updated the firmware to something I wrote or compiled from another source?
The update is predicated on a valid signature.
So your device had no user freedom. You're not doing much to refute the notion that these technologies are only useful to severely restrict user freedom for money.
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