alt Hacker NewsThis kind of thing is generally used to disallow downgrading the bootloader once there is a bug in chain of trust handling of the bootloader. Otherwise once broken is forever broken. It makes sense from the trusted computing perspective to have this. It's not even new, it was still there on p2k motorollas 25 years ago.
You may not want trusted computing and root/jailbreak everything as a consumer, but building one is not inherently evil.
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A discussion you don't see nearly enough of is that there is a fundamental tradeoff with hardware security features — every feature that you can use to secure your device can also be used by an adversary to keep control once they compromise you.
I’d like to think I’m buying the device, not a seat to use the device, at least if I do not want to use their software.
> It's not even new, it was still there on p2k motorollas 25 years ago.
I’m sure CIA was not founded after covid :-)
Trusted computing means trusted by the vendor and content providers, not trusted by the user. In that sense I consider it very evil.