Trusted computing has been a trap, slowly closing over the course of years. And with so many things like it, it happens very slowly at first, then all at once. The door is closing. Escape their environment before you can’t anymore.
We’ve seen that consumers can no longer dictate the market, they are dictating the market at us. This will not get better, you have to be proactive.
EDIT: Richard Stallman article that is necessary reading on the matter, Can You Trust Your Computer?. Do you find this hard to believe?
Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is what they’ve done and are continuing to do to phones. We talk about the Apple and Google’s “walled gardens” but it’s even more than that. It’s about only allowing “trusted” applications to run, on “trusted” operating systems, with “trusted” drivers and “trusted” hardware, for “your security”, to “protect you” (from yourself). But it’s really about control, complete control, not just of our devices but of us as people.
That is what they intend to do to all computing devices. Over time, gradually. They know they can’t do it overnight and force it down people’s throats, because it’s fundamentally anti-freedom, people will resist, rebel, start to switch to devices and systems that allow them to take back their personal and computing autonomy, using technology to enable their own goals instead of what the manufacturers and services “allow”. So they have to slowly creep it in. People still resist and rebel, but they keep pushing ever so subtly towards more control for them and less control for you. One step back is followed by two steps forward, then another step back when people resist, then another two steps forward. Progress keeps being made, despite the resistance. They will keep normalizing it until people say “well of course they have to protect <x>” and we forget that the freedom to decide what we ourselves are willing to trust so we can do what we want with the hardware and software we own is a fundamental and necessary human right.
They know they can’t do it overnight and force it down people’s throats, because it’s fundamentally anti-freedom, people will resist, rebel, start to switch to devices and systems that allow them to take back their personal and computing autonomy, using technology to enable their own goals instead of what the manufacturers and services “allow”. So they have to slowly creep it in.
This is exactly what Windows 11 is. I have a background in large scale system deployments and if you want anything to be effective, you have to baseline it. What better way than with a the rollout of a mandatory OS upgrade demanding these features?
You can’t crack the trusted computing whip if everyone isn’t on that same baseline. Mark my words, I’d bet a fucking limb on it, once Windows 11 sees a significant market share the decline will become much more severe, much more quickly. They’re hungry, they relented a bit on Windows 10 in the EU for another year because they’re so close, what’s one more year. They can taste how close it is now …
Trusted computing has been a trap, slowly closing over the course of years. And with so many things like it, it happens very slowly at first, then all at once. The door is closing. Escape their environment before you can’t anymore.
We’ve seen that consumers can no longer dictate the market, they are dictating the market at us. This will not get better, you have to be proactive.
EDIT: Richard Stallman article that is necessary reading on the matter, Can You Trust Your Computer?. Do you find this hard to believe?
Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is what they’ve done and are continuing to do to phones. We talk about the Apple and Google’s “walled gardens” but it’s even more than that. It’s about only allowing “trusted” applications to run, on “trusted” operating systems, with “trusted” drivers and “trusted” hardware, for “your security”, to “protect you” (from yourself). But it’s really about control, complete control, not just of our devices but of us as people.
That is what they intend to do to all computing devices. Over time, gradually. They know they can’t do it overnight and force it down people’s throats, because it’s fundamentally anti-freedom, people will resist, rebel, start to switch to devices and systems that allow them to take back their personal and computing autonomy, using technology to enable their own goals instead of what the manufacturers and services “allow”. So they have to slowly creep it in. People still resist and rebel, but they keep pushing ever so subtly towards more control for them and less control for you. One step back is followed by two steps forward, then another step back when people resist, then another two steps forward. Progress keeps being made, despite the resistance. They will keep normalizing it until people say “well of course they have to protect <x>” and we forget that the freedom to decide what we ourselves are willing to trust so we can do what we want with the hardware and software we own is a fundamental and necessary human right.
This is exactly what Windows 11 is. I have a background in large scale system deployments and if you want anything to be effective, you have to baseline it. What better way than with a the rollout of a mandatory OS upgrade demanding these features?
You can’t crack the trusted computing whip if everyone isn’t on that same baseline. Mark my words, I’d bet a fucking limb on it, once Windows 11 sees a significant market share the decline will become much more severe, much more quickly. They’re hungry, they relented a bit on Windows 10 in the EU for another year because they’re so close, what’s one more year. They can taste how close it is now …