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protocoltureyesterday at 4:45 AM0 repliesview on HN

>It doesn't work. Everything from banks to Netflix and others are slowly edging out anything where they can't fully verify the chain of control to an entity they can have a legal or contractual relationship with.

Theres nothing stopping a hardware vendor from being able to delete the system installed keys/certificates, breaking trust to allow you to install your own. Sure netflix might not like it but you still have the right to run your own code and netflix has the right not to trust your OS.

>Governments shouldn't be able to prevent me from end to end encrypting things.

Agreed.