But, overall, the situation isn't great. On many platforms there's simply no way to prove that you booted the code you expected to boot. People have designed elaborate security implementations that can be bypassed in a number of ways.
This would only be a problem if we lived in a fantasy world where people would eventually wake up and pass laws to ban the use of security measures to take control away from the user.
Unfortunately, in the real world, it's nearly impossible to get people to understand why freedom and privacy are so important. So finding a way to circumvent security will ultimately be our only option to attain any form of technological liberation.
That is, of course, if backdoor bills like Chat Control don't get approved. If they do, all instructions on how to bypass these measures will disappear from the internet...
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Date: 2023-07-12 02:48 am (UTC)This would only be a problem if we lived in a fantasy world where people would eventually wake up and pass laws to ban the use of security measures to take control away from the user.
Unfortunately, in the real world, it's nearly impossible to get people to understand why freedom and privacy are so important. So finding a way to circumvent security will ultimately be our only option to attain any form of technological liberation.
That is, of course, if backdoor bills like Chat Control don't get approved. If they do, all instructions on how to bypass these measures will disappear from the internet...