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tostitoday at 5:19 PM3 repliesview on HN

Computers should abide by their owners. Any computer not doing that is broken.


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ghighi7878today at 6:02 PM

Its a simple solution in law to enable. Force manufacturers to allow owners of computer to put any signing key in the BIOS.

We need this law. Once we have this law, consumers csn get maximum benefit of secure boot withiut losing contorl

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cferrytoday at 5:36 PM

I make the analogy with a company, because on that front, ownership seems to matter a lot in the Western world. It's like it had to have unfaithful management appointed by another company they're a customer of, as a condition to use their products. Worse, said provider is also a provider for every other business, and their products are not interoperable. How long before courts jump in to prevent this and give back control to the business owner?

wat10000today at 5:55 PM

This gets tricky. If I click on a link intending to view a picture of a cat, but instead it installs ransomware, is that abiding by its owner or not? It did what I told it to do, but not at all what I wanted.

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