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>>gjsman+(OP)
What is to prevent school WiFi from one day requiring a Pluton assertion that your Windows PC hasn’t been tampered with before you can join the network?

Remote attestation is the true enemy of your freedom. The power of the authoritarian corporatocracy to force you to use only the (entire) systems they control. It's worth reading https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html again just to see how prescient Stallman was.

>>userbi+17
Same with TPM and why it had so many critics. Some people still seem adamant to say that boot viruses are the greatest threat in the 21st century, but the economic interest are far more dangerous for general computing in my opinion. And it isn't even close.

>>raxxor+bz
So basically, Cory Doctorow's "The Upcoming War Against General Computation"?

https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-...

https://github.com/jwise/28c3-doctorow/blob/master/transcrip...

Don't know enough about the subject to tell if his "attempts to control general computation will converge on rootkits" prediction has held up.

>>vander+fE
> "attempts to control general computation will converge on rootkits" prediction has held up.

If you play video games, you probably have a couple of neat kernel rootkits installed as "anti cheat".

A lot of remote proctoring stuff for exams are looking a lot like rootkits too.

EDR/XDR is also just rootkits. For security. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a rootkit is a good guy with a rootkit, after all.

>>nibble+sY
Kernel rootkits are going to be redundant pretty soon.

There are cheats out there that use video captured by capture cards as input for an AI on a separate computer to actually play the game like a human would. Once that becomes widespread there is no way to stop it, save from banning capture cards entirely.