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Did Spafford threaten the neighbors directly? In a legal context, and also the real world sans a legal context, words do have meaning and words do matter. I don't see anything in t…

Thank you for prompting attention to the switcheroo. This angle of attack is generally unheard of, but should be considered. I can think of some mitigations that can work. Tamper-e…

Why "fight the bots" anyway? If software that is acting out the will of some humans somewhere is retrieving static contents, what's the big deal?

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This here is a stronger motivator than any other motivator mentioned in all other comments posted. And "journalist" will include anyone who has the "wrong" memes on their machine.

The more inexpensive option of the newer Trezor wallets and "login PIN" as an optional alternative to a password that also works, seems to be the best option (that I have seen so f…

Your hammer is preempted by a teethed hollow point bullet to the face (in the hypothetical scenario, of course).

> vs. FDE with a boot key stored in some cloud service secured with the user's password instead of a TPM Without secure boot (backed by TPM), I can boot a small USB device that has…

I agree. TPM defends against the most likely threat that typical users are facing. And, where users that are individually targeted, the theft/robbery will more often than not be de…

> there is no standardisation in connectors, pinout, or bus type when it's not soldered onto the board. I have three motherboards with plug-in TPMs and each required a different, u…

We have had "FDE" and secure boot with TPM in higher-than-commercial (defense) and the higher end of commercial settings for Linux, BSD, and illumos since TPM 1.2 was available, an…

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Common use cases, are, "as a Developer / DevOps practitioner, I want for": - a client (company I do contract work for) sees a different source address that is different than the so…

Those are big words for someone who openly admits to running binary blobs in the kernel of the device carried on-person.

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> of people who actually appreciate the threat model enough to keep spending extra effort The "product" is already successful. Some spent effort, others spent money. Those who did …

The inner city gang-related shootings that are counted as more than just the bulk of the "mass shootings" are not "white male".

We already have a safer less violent society, it's found outside the cities.