Comment by deknos
24 days ago
> Attestation, secure enclaves, and other technologies create ways to distribute software that otherwise wouldn't exist. How many things are in the cloud solely to enforce access control? What if they didn't have to be?
To be honest, mainly companies need that. personal users do not need that. And additionally companies are NOT restrained by governments not to exploit customers as much as possible.
So... i also see it as enslaving users. And tell me, for many private persons, where does this actually give them for PRIVATE persons, NOT companies a net benefit?
additionally:
> This potential shouldn't prevent our inventing new kinds of tool.
Why do i see someone who wants to build an atomic bomb for shit and giggles using this argument, too? As hyperbole as my argument is, the argument given is not good here, as well.
The immutable linux people build tools, without building good tools which actually make it easier for private people at home to adapt a immutable linux to THEIR liking.
The atomic bomb is good example of what I'm talking about. The reason we haven't had a world war in 80 years is the atomic bomb. Far from being an instrument of misery, it's given us an age of unprecedented peace and prosperity. Plus, all the anti-nuclear activism in the world hasn't come one step closer to banishing nuclear weapons from the earth.
In my personal philosophy, it is never bad to develop a new technology.