This article has been mentioned on Hacker News --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365057.
At the moment, the top-rated comment is one I really very much agree with:
"While I find this post and the ideas presented very interesting on the technical level, work in that direction ("remote attestation", making devices "tamper-proof") tends to give me a dystopian vibe - foreshadowing a world where there's no hardware left you can hack, build and flash your own firmware onto: Complete tivoization, to re-use lingo from when the GPLv3 was drafted. With that, really neutering all the benefits Free Software provides. What good is having all the source code in the world if I can never put my (or anyone else's) modifications to it into effect?"
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Date: 2021-06-02 02:13 pm (UTC)This article has been mentioned on Hacker News --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27365057.
At the moment, the top-rated comment is one I really very much agree with:
"While I find this post and the ideas presented very interesting on the technical level, work in that direction ("remote attestation", making devices "tamper-proof") tends to give me a dystopian vibe - foreshadowing a world where there's no hardware left you can hack, build and flash your own firmware onto: Complete tivoization, to re-use lingo from when the GPLv3 was drafted. With that, really neutering all the benefits Free Software provides. What good is having all the source code in the world if I can never put my (or anyone else's) modifications to it into effect?"