[enriquto]

half of the founders of this thing come from Microsoft. I suppose this makes the answer to your question obvious.

[stackghost]

My thoughts exactly. We're probably witnessing the beginning of the end of linux users being able to run their own kernels. Soon:

- your bank won't let you log in from an "insecure" device.

- you won't be able to play videos on an "insecure" device.

- you won't be able to play video games on an "insecure" device.

And so on, and so forth.

[dijit]

Unfortunately the parent commenter is completely right.

The attestation portion of those systems is happening on locked down devices, and if you gain ownership of the devices they no longer attest themselves.

This is the curse of the duopoly of iOS and Android.

BankID in Sweden will only run with one of these devices, they used to offer a card system but getting one seems to be impossible these days. So you're really stuck with a mobile device as your primary means of identification for banking and such.

There's a reason that general purpose computers are locked to 720p on Netflix and Disney+; yet AppleTV's are not.

[anonym29]

Torrenting is becoming more popular again. The alternative to being allowed to pay to watch on an "insecure" device isn't switching to an attested device, it's to stop paying for the content at all. Games industry, same thing (or just play the good older games, the new ones suck anyway).

Finances, just pay everything by cheque or physical pennies. Fight back. Starve the tyrants to death where you can, force the tyrants to incur additional costs and inefficiencies where you can't.

[seba_dos1]

This is already the world we live in when it comes to the most popular personal computing devices running Linux out there.

[JasonADrury]

Is the joke here that all of those things have already been happening for a while now?

[blibble]

that's a silver lining

the anti-user attestation will at least be full of security holes, and likely won't work at all

[sam_lowry_]

Dunno about the others but Pottering has proven himself to deliver software against the grain.