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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 · 3w
https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967 There needs to be a law that makes remote attestation - no matter who provides the root certificates, Google/Apple/GrapheneOS...
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There is a real chance that in 5-10 years, there will be laptops and smartphones running open processors and operating systems with UX and and an OS comparable or better than the proprietary equivalent, but which are effectively useless to the average consumer because it is cryptographically impossible to use them for anything due to remote attestation proliferating more and more
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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 · 3w
You can't view social media posts because your mandatory eID app for age verification attests your OS image against an allowlist of certs the govt controls, a gate that you can't ever pass. You can't text your friends because WhatsApp requires SafetyNet to "keep bots out". You can't call your doctor...