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Google's Web Environment Integrity made me remember this video (vimeo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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The video is a short documentary on Trusted Computing and what it means to us, the users.

If you like it and you are worried, please show it to others.
If you are not the kind to post on forums, adding it to your Bio on Lemmy and other sites, in your messaging app, or in your email/forum signature may also be a way to raise awareness.

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[–] loops@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

http://www.againsttcpa.com/index.shtml

Presumably there will be high costs to get this certification and that these would be too much for little and mid-range companies. Therefore open-source and freeware would be condemned to die, because without such a certification the software will simply not work. In the long term only the big companies would survive and could control the market as they would like.

This bill plans to legally force secure (TCPA-conform) systems. So in the USA it would then not be allowed to buy or sell systems that are not TCPA-conform. Passing this law would be punished with up to 5 years of prision and up to $500.000 fine. The same would apply for development of "open" software. Open means that it would work on systems that're not TCPA-conform.

  • Probably the world would break into two digital parts (Countries that express against TCPA)
[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is not about WEI, but similarly to the video in general, it also applies today: remember that Intel and AMD has released their latest CPU lines with built-in Pluton (brought to you by Microsoft), that is basically the same thing as described on the page. Some details might be different though, as that way written 10+ years ago.