Comment by tliltocatl
1 month ago
You are trying to portrait it as an exchange between equal parties which it isn't. I am totally entitled not to have to use a thrid-party-controlled device to access government services. Or my bank account.
1 month ago
You are trying to portrait it as an exchange between equal parties which it isn't. I am totally entitled not to have to use a thrid-party-controlled device to access government services. Or my bank account.
remote attestation is just fancy digital signatures with hardware protected secret keys. Are you freaking out about digital signatures used anywhere else?
Trusted computing boil down to restricting what software I'm allowed to run on hardware I own and use. The technical means to do so are irrelevant.
"Trusted computing boil down to restricting what software I'm allowed to run on hardware I own and use." Remote attestation doesn't do this.
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