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>>transp+(OP)
Seems like there needs to be a split of both hardware and software. Mobile phones morphed into something else lately. Not all of us need all the features of a smart phone, but still need a comms device. We need a simpler OS with simpler hardware that focuses on comms and less features. Simpler OS, lower attack surface, simpler to maintain without the help of a gigantic corporation. I don't need a supercomputer in my pocket.

>>arcane+3n
>Not all of us need all the features of a smart phone, but still need a comms device. [...] I don't need a supercomputer in my pocket.

What's stopping you from using a feature phone?

>>gruez+bn
Security/privacy?

>>arcane+En
So you want a $100 feature phone that has serious security features like monthly security patches and dedicated security coprocessors? It's tough to make the economics of that work out. All the serious security features costs money to implement, either in the form of development costs or added costs to the BOM. Those costs can be absorbed if you're selling a $600 phone, but not a $100 phone. If you try to add those features to a $100 phone, it'll end up making the phone more expensive, which means nobody but security freaks would buy your phone, and you lose economies of scale that's needed to make a phone at all.

Back to your point, there's already a "split of hardware and software" in the PC market, and we know how it works out. Security there is a joke. Windows might be getting monthly security patches, but the same can't be said of the panoply of third party drivers/firmware. Whenever microsoft tries to push for better security they get shouted down by people claiming it's some sort of conspiracy to implement DRM.

>>gruez+3r
>Whenever microsoft tries to push for better security they get shouted down by people claiming it's some sort of conspiracy to implement DRM.

Mainly because it is, and you can go Q.E.D. all you like, but there doesn't need to be a bunch of mustachioed villains explicitly making evil plans when everyone's ultimate aims align. They're going to get theirs, and the rest will just be a long for the ride while those people in a position of power continue to weave a collective path through the space of "conspicuously unimplemented features".

The computer was meant to be as a calculator. An unassuming tool to automate the mundane, not as a link in the chain of techno-fascism/feudalism/tyranny. The only thing that will ward off that eventuality is how we as people embrace and guide it's further usage & implementation.

The tech is currently here for every bad ending. I want to make that clear. It has already arrived. The knowledge of it's configuration to bring those ends are the part that isn't quite realized yet. I pray that it won't be unearthed, but with the way things are currently going, I have serious doubts.

>>salawa+ZA
>Mainly because it is, and you can go Q.E.D. all you like, but there doesn't need to be a bunch of mustachioed villains explicitly making evil plans when everyone's ultimate aims align. They're going to get theirs, and the rest will just be a long for the ride while those people in a position of power continue to weave a collective path through the space of "conspicuously unimplemented features".

Like it or not, TPM was meant to increase security by deterring evil maid attacks. If you can't stop this sort of attack, your device doesn't offer serious security, and a feature phone with wifi/bluetooth/cellular data turned off probably has similar security. Moreover TPMs were introduced over a decade ago and there's still no DRM that's based on it. People did forget about SGX though, which came and went but had actual DRM built for it. I've also never heard a peep about HDCP which is specifically for DRM purposes and is built into every GPU/monitor.