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I fully believe that by the end of the decade it will be illegal in some Western countries to go online with a device that doesn't provide a measured boot attestation that it is running a government-approved operating system.


I'm not sure why I was downvoted, but I believe this too.

Same goes for music and video - we won't be legally allowed to hear and watch non-DRM-playable devices as the speakers and displays will be rented not owned by corporations.

We have almost arrived at the Rental Economy, where we dont own anything and are at the behest of corporations. It's modern serfdom


You might have already seen this but in case you havent, there's a famous talk about this called "the coming war on general computation" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg), and much of this has already come true


I'll make a bet that it'll be UK, specifically.




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