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by whatshisface 1286 days ago
Scrolling through their website it looks like they are offering an enterprise terminal that's not meant for personal use.
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Same thing with the underlying business case for Intel/AMD's ME/PSP backdoors, and locked down computing in general. Yet we all now have to suffer their existence on every performant CPU made in the past decade.

If software developers had a professional oath to do no harm akin to doctors, creating such systems would be professional malpractice. Some lines just shouldn't be crossed.

>If software developers had a professional oath to do no harm akin to doctors, creating such systems would be professional malpractice. Some lines just shouldn't be crossed.

akin to engineers as well.

> If software developers had a professional oath to do no harm

Weapons need software, too.