[LooseMarmoset]

If you build remote attestation into your product, corporate entities will require it. Just look at Android - What phones today give you unlimited root? If you have rooted, what applications have you broken? If you root, what e-fuses have you blown in your CPU meaning it can never be un-rooted? Android, at the start, was open and freely modified - not so much anymore. Companies like Google can and have cut off access to user's data, without recourse. You can't modify your phone, so you don't own your phone. You just pay rent until they don't support it anymore.

[embedding-shape]

I think phones are a completely different beast though (and already a lost cause), PCs seems a lot more resilient to that sort of lock down.

But on the other hand, you might be right, you never know how the future looks. But personally I'll wait until there is at least some signal that it's moving in that direction, before I start prepping for it to actually happening.

[LooseMarmoset]

Everything else has moved in that direction:

  * Literally every game console
  * Literally every smartphone
  * Microsoft, with their Win11 requirements, is moving there
  * John Deere (read on their own hardware attestation efforts to block DIY)
  * Car companies (require specialized tooling and software subscriptions to make certain repairs)
  * Anything that requires a signed bootloader and signed software updates
  * Snapdragon CPUs and e-fuses that burn when you use unsigned software, and brick
  * Apple hardware, literally crypto-signed so you can't use aftermarket parts
  * Google Chromecast
  * Amazon Kindle, locked hardware
  * IBM has locked hardware to their laptops for *years*. Ever try upgrading a wifi card in an IBM laptop? They're already invested in this

the list goes on...of course it's coming to PC.

[direwolf20]

They are a different beast because of the culture surrounding them — nothing technologically different. Lennart wants to bring that same culture to desktops.