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The regulations that were the result of lobbying by privacy and digital sovereignty advocates, contrary to the lobbying interests of Big Tech(tm)?

> are now the excuse for these hostile features

These features may be hostile if you don't control your own root of trust or if your vendor burns fuses prior to selling a device to you. If you were expecting otherwise, in that context they sold you a defective product.

Those same features are beneficial if you run your own root of trust. They help maintain control over your devices and increase confidence that they have not been coopted by your adversaries.

>>jauer+(OP)
So yes. Now the bar for rudimentary, independent computer use requires an understanding of the finer points of cryptography.

Do you not understand how insane that prospect is?