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UEFI comes with SB, Microsoft introduces TPM, Google introduces WEI. They will will say it is for your benefit, and in part it is correct, but security can be achieved through many measures, and corporations will choose such solutions that will grant them more ability to control your device.

This leads to accumulation of "power", and monopolization of it in systems leads to vulnerability. One point of failure is enough to compromise entire ecosystem.

Just reminds me that apple checked every application you run, for "safety reasons" (rather checks app certificates, but that is nearly the same).




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