Every time people hear what it actually involves is outrage and opposition, at least all the way back to when Intel first announced that they wanted to hardcode identity numbers inside CPUs in 1999. But the corporations involved have been relentless, and have sunk countless billions of dollars steadily forcing it forwards, and building front organizations to obfuscate and whitewash it.

With Windows 11, Microsoft was finally able to FORCE Trusted computing hardware into every new computer. Not just every new Windows computer, but every computer.

Every new Intel PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new AMD PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new ARM PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. The only processor lines that DON'T have it are the microcontrollers.

There are some unlocked smartphones available, but as far as I can determine it's literally impossible to buy a smartphone that doesn't have hardware trusted computing built in.

I specified that enforcing Trusted Computing at the internet access level is still a long term goal, they couldn't get away with it today. However they are well on the way to success. Virtually all new hardware supporting trusted computing, all the front groups rolling out standards and systems, and as it gets incorporated into things everyone is going to increasingly running into situations where they get locked out of stuff if they're not Trusted Computing compliant. Streaming already restricts you to the worst quality if you're not compliant, and it's only going to get worse as pre-Win11 computers fade out and as more things require it.

I'd hardly call exact date of birth "low information content".

And yes this does reveal exact date of birth, regardless of the bullshit obfuscation that it supposedly only reports age range. The server simply tracks the reported result every time the user connects, and on some specific day the result CHANGES to announce their date of birth.

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This is based on SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts), brought to you by the same fuckers making Trusted Computing and the TMP (Trusted Platform Module). It's part of the same shitstack to prohibit you from altering your software and to lock you out of your own files, and to send spy reports out over the internet so you can be cut off if you "fail" the Trusted Computing check.

The software can use a TPM's (Trusted Platform Module) Sealing function to encrypt your data such that it's impossible to access your own data if the software is modified. It can then pass control over that data only to software updates that carry a signed security certificate from Broadcom (or any other company using this system).

It is no longer open source, your system no longer works as you can no longer access your Sealed data if you change so much as a single letter of the code. Even recompile unaltered code won't work, unless you magically manage to get your build environment absolutely identical to the company's build environment and get byte-for-byte output. Even that may be impossible with the newer levels of non-deterministic compiler optimizations.

Also, with TMP's Remote Attestation feature can be used to transmit your machine's software configuration over the internet, so that you can be cut off if your system doesn't match Broadcom (or other company's) cryptographically signed certificate.

And then of course there's Network Access Control (NAC) / Trusted Network Connect (TNC). In the long term, the goal is for ISPs to use NAC/TNC to interrogate your computer for Trusted Computing compliance, and deny you any internet access whatsoever if your machine isn't compliant. Software with this sort of "security" certificate would pass inspection, while any attempt to alter the code would be detected as "tampering". You then get "quarantined". What "quarantine" means is that you are denied internet access - with the exception that you do get very restricted access which can only be used to download the approved software to "fix" your computer into Trusted Computing compliance.

So, can I plug my Apple TV into it and never need to worry about that third party watching me or getting popover ads crap?

Brian is right.

+5 insightful analysis (I speak as a proud American of Indian origin who just got caught in the Indigo sh*tstorm, but would've agreed about this societal artifact even otherwise).

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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nice to see some positive news

about people shitting the streets in the so called developed USA

terrible drugs n crime n open defecation rate at 1/9th population density of India
- (US landmass= 3x Indias
- US Population = 0.3 x Indias)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Thank you for saying this. Concur.

....into a drug n crime infested hellhole, and this is the supposed upscale Silicon Valley

terrible drugs n crime rate at 1/9th population density of India
- (US landmass= 3x Indias
- US Population = 0.3 x Indias)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

sad to be a dying civilization, is it not, AC

... didnt know the US was a humongously worse shit-pit

https://youtu.be/RKIebSflncQ?s...

my bad...

I speak as a proud American of Indian origin (25years in the Good Ole USA, ex GeorgiaTech, ex MIT startups)... ... who has watched the US sell its soul to cheaper, shoddily produced Chinese goods.

Good riddance to badly invasive colonialist rubbish ... .... that was the british empire of looters (to India & beyond)

https://www.ebsco.com/research...

The Bengal Famine of 1943 stands as one of the gravest humanitarian crises in modern history, leading to the deaths of an estimated three million people and further affecting millions through malnutrition and disease. Several factors converged to create this catastrophic situation, primarily influenced by British colonial policies during World War II.