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elcritchyesterday at 7:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Secure boot and attestation both generally require a form of DRM. It’s a boon for security, but also for control.


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youarentrightjryesterday at 9:37 PM

> Secure boot and attestation both generally require a form of DRM.

They literally don't.

For a decade, I worked on secure boot & attestation for a device that was both:

- firmware updatable - had zero concept or hardware that connected it to anything that could remotely be called a network

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