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aurareturn | 8 days ago

Finally, sensible. I never understand why websites or apps had to do it. It's way easier, more scalable and cheaper for the OS to do it.

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saidinesh5|8 days ago

And more draconian.

"Our systems aren't foolproof because anyone can just boot Linux from USB. Hence we should enforce secure boot with proprietary keys and disable functionality for non attested PCs"

This is not far fetched. All Android vendors went down this path and now you can't even enable developer mode if you want your bank app to work to approve your bank loan.

wqaatwt|8 days ago

Which just seems like a slippery slope. Since there is no friction and users are not annoyed anymore governments will just continue requiring more and more spyware to be added to all software/devices.

IMHO requiring every to submit notarized paper forms to access Facebook/whtvr would be the best solution

beej71|8 days ago

How is Linux going to do this?

TacticalCoder|8 days ago

I don't know but as Linux powers the entire world, include 2/3rd of the world's smartphone, I'm sure they'll find a way.

_vere|7 days ago

Treating Linux as a monolith here is kind of missing the point. Desktop Linux and Android have an entirely different application model, a solution for Android would have to be applied in a significantly different manner to desktop Linux. It'd likely be folded in to play services, as was the case with the exposure notification framework during covid for example.

Hizonner|8 days ago

You know what's really cheap and scalable? Not doing such moronic shit at all.