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noonespecial on Aug 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets?

I can't help but wonder if I'll wax nostalgic one day about the unfettered access I had to general purpose computers that I could make do almost anything as the "think of the children" types of that day tut-tut about how madly dangerous it all was.

arethuza on Aug 1, 2012 [–]

That is one of the themes in Vinge's Rainbows End: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

It describes a near future where it is a legal requirement that all computing devices conform to a "Secure Hardware Environment" (SHE) standard.

TazeTSchnitzel on Aug 1, 2012 | [–]

That sounds eerily similar to the UEFI Secure Boot system.

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