Your computer should say what you tell it to say
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Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#2The EFF stands alone in its commitment to actually speaking truth to power. The ACLU has become just another arm of the DNC, same with the SPLC etc - repeating CNN-esque talking points. Same with the NRA - milquetoast arm of those in power.
The EFF will go after orgs that fund it, which requires true compunction.
FIRE is a good replacement for the ACLU, FYI. And John Brown Gun Club is becoming a better NRA.
Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#3The EFF stands alone in its commitment to actually speaking truth to power. The ACLU has become just another arm of the DNC, same with the SPLC etc - repeating CNN-esque talking points. Same with the NRA - milquetoast arm of those in power. The EFF will go after orgs that fund it, which requires true compunction. FIRE is a good replacement for the ACLU, FYI. And John Brown Gun Club is becoming a better NRA.
that's all great but you realize a lot of readers here are not USA, eh?
"web-TPM" needs to be named-and-shamed among literate people in all nations IMHO. It is clearly political -- there are private winners and public losers in the change to locked and enforced access to digital content on the Internet. Any commercial company in any country that can successfully block the roads and check ID will make money, and they know it.
Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#4The EFF stands alone in its commitment to actually speaking truth to power. The ACLU has become just another arm of the DNC, same with the SPLC etc - repeating CNN-esque talking points. Same with the NRA - milquetoast arm of those in power. The EFF will go after orgs that fund it, which requires true compunction. FIRE is a good replacement for the ACLU, FYI. And John Brown Gun Club is becoming a better NRA.
that's all great but you realize a lot of readers here are not USA, eh? "web-TPM" needs to be named-and-shamed among literate people in all nations IMHO. It is clearly political -- there are private winners and public losers in the change to locked and enforced access to digital content on the Internet. Any commercial company in any country that can successfully block the roads and check ID will make money, and they…
It's not a "web-TPM", far from it conceptually.
Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#5That's a very well-written explanation!
I would hope that we see this kind of explanation more frequently.
Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#6The EFF stands alone in its commitment to actually speaking truth to power. The ACLU has become just another arm of the DNC, same with the SPLC etc - repeating CNN-esque talking points. Same with the NRA - milquetoast arm of those in power. The EFF will go after orgs that fund it, which requires true compunction. FIRE is a good replacement for the ACLU, FYI. And John Brown Gun Club is becoming a better NRA.
While I agree that the ACLU has become defanged, there are many more civil liberties to protect beyond simply free speech, which seems to be the only concern of FIRE.
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#7Remember: upvoting the EFF's articles is good, but you (yes, you!) can also donate to them to help with these campaigns!
Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#8Remember: upvoting the EFF's articles is good, but you (yes, you!) can also donate to them to help with these campaigns!
Agreed. I have a lot of respect for the work they do.
They make some cool merch too:
Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#9The EFF stands alone in its commitment to actually speaking truth to power. The ACLU has become just another arm of the DNC, same with the SPLC etc - repeating CNN-esque talking points. Same with the NRA - milquetoast arm of those in power. The EFF will go after orgs that fund it, which requires true compunction. FIRE is a good replacement for the ACLU, FYI. And John Brown Gun Club is becoming a better NRA.
While I agree that the ACLU has become defanged, there are many more civil liberties to protect beyond simply free speech, which seems to be the only concern of FIRE.
To be fair, free speech is pretty huge though
And it’s constantly under attack even in this day and age
Re: Your computer should say what you tell it to say
#10I mean, devil's advocate here, this tech already exists and the question is do we do client attestation in a browser or pretend remote attestation doesn't exist.
If this gets rejected, would that mean that services that need a "trusted client" simply deprecate their web apps and rely on a iOS/Android app?
I'm not trying to argue in favor of WEI, I just think this doesn't magically disappear if Google doesn't implement in Chrome, it just moves the problem elsewhere. The fight was implementing TPM in the first place.