buckykat

joined 1 year ago
[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only one with physical access to my hardware trying to fuck with the software is me. Evil maid attacks are purely hypothetical for almost everyone, and suggesting that TPM is necessary to protect against them is dishonest. TPM is a much greater threat than any it purports to protect against.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

To torture this stupid banana analogy until it's relevant again, if you spend your entire life working against fascist coups in latin america but you don't have a problem with the chiquita banana company, your advocacy rings kind of hollow

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's pretty easy to simply not get in a submarine, I've been doing it my whole life.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Failing to state their incompatibility is logically identical to stating their compatibility. This is trivial.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's not run to maximize shareholder value

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What does it mean to be secure? Allowing a megacorp to mandate what you can and can't do on your own hardware means that hardware is less secure, not more.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

next tell them why we call it dialing

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Since you've completely ignored my main point, I'll just repeat it:

Why is there nonFree software?

The answer is the profit motive.

Capitalism is not a side issue. It is the central issue.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

TPM isn't for your security, it's for Microsoft and Disney and other megacorps' security against you

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never used Spotify because it requires an account, so I don't really see the appeal.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You think the treacherous computing module actually obeys your command to stop betraying you?

[–] buckykat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tyson is a major US meat producer, especially of chicken, and are infamous for keeping the chickens in extremely inhuman conditions and also for using human slave labor to do it.

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