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1. jacobr+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-01-28 18:00:04
So there are two levels of tradeoffs:

1) The requirements themselves. These are different for consumer vs employee type scenarios. So general, I'd prefer we err on the side of DRM free for things like media, but there are legitimate concerns around things like data privacy when you are an employee of an organization handling sensitive data.

2) Presuming there are legitimate reasons to have strong validation of the user and untampered software, we have the choice of A) using only organization supplied hardware in those case or B) using your own with some kind of restriction. I'd much prefer to use my own as much as possible ... if I can be ensured that it won't spy on me, or limit what I can do, for the non-organization specific purposes I've explicitly opted-in to enable.

> I'm uncomfortable letting organisations have control over the software that runs on my hardware.

I'm not, if we can sandbox. I'm fine with organizations running javascript in my browser for instance. Or running mobile apps that can access certain data with explicit permissions (like granting access to my photos so that I can share them in-app). I think we can do better with both more granular permissions, better UX, and cryptographic guarantees to both the user and the organization that both the computation and data is operating at the agreed level.

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