The worst problem is that people are (even in the other discussion thread here on HN) still claiming that we are scaremongering.
Remember what some people on here (and elsewhere) work for. They either truly believe advancing the authoritarian corporatocracy is a good thing, have been brainwashed into doing so, or are just happy to have a job. These are the true enemies of your freedom.
Some of us saw this coming endgame ever since the "Trusted Computing" movement started, and how they slowly drowned out their opposition with propaganda. "Security" has become the go-to excuse for having their way with their power. The infamous Franklin quote has certainly taken on a new meaning.
I need an explicit list of public keys corresponding to the hardware roots of trust. From the article and prior reading it seems to be the hardware vendor's. Or are these in turn signed by Intel, AMD, ARM, ...?
i.e. which public key is actually burnt in the processor's eFuses?
A cryptographic break can always happen, and in such a cryptographically apocalyptic event i'd prefer to be able to author, sign and boot a minimal bootloader myself.
Have people ever gathered such listings?
EDIT: a secondary reason for maintaining such lists: key compromise can always happen, knowing when you need to replace your processor / computer because of a fundamental compromise would be mandatory. Also when buying hardware being able to observe historically compromised keys by vendor could give an indication of their security discipline.
I dont think it's a concerted effort to support corportocracy think it's just the just world fallacy.
It happens in all sorts of other domains too - the tendency to believe that things, by default, are the way they are for good and just reasons is strong in most people.
It happens in all sorts of other domains too - the tendency to believe that things, by default, are the way they are for good and just reasons is strong in most people.
For example, that’s why there are still ashtrays in new airplanes by default.
Remember what some people on here (and elsewhere) work for. They either truly believe advancing the authoritarian corporatocracy is a good thing, have been brainwashed into doing so, or are just happy to have a job. These are the true enemies of your freedom.
Some of us saw this coming endgame ever since the "Trusted Computing" movement started, and how they slowly drowned out their opposition with propaganda. "Security" has become the go-to excuse for having their way with their power. The infamous Franklin quote has certainly taken on a new meaning.