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Big tech often uses cryptography to lock us out of our own hardware and into their DRM schemes, hiding what the software on the device is doing and often even hiding the binaries. Updates to the software become ways to more often protect the company's business models than to protect the user, and so "bugs become features" in this regime, leading to perverse incentivizes among everyone aware enough to understand this dynamic, with end users encouraging each other to NOT accept security updates in the HOPE that they will be broken one day in order to finally have a way to get root access on their own device. I recommend watching some of the many talks I have given on this subject or reading some of the many articles written by Cory Doctorow, if you somehow honestly don't know about this dynamic. When someone at Big Tech stupidly reimplements crypto... we cheer.

https://youtu.be/WyBgn06LNOY



I mean, that I get? I'm a professional connoisseur of cryptography vulnerabilities, so, for completely different reasons, I'm also happy to see things blow up. But like, the general sentiment of "it would be best if any given cryptosystem blew up", that sentiment I do not get. Platform security modules, sure (though: at that point you're conceding a lot to governments).




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