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by 66fm472tjy7 504 days ago
puts tinfoil hat on

Ensuring that a critical mass of people use remote attestation[0] capable devices.

The next step is a browser API[1] for this so that content owners can exclude devices capable of storing the content, or stripping out ads/tracking, etc.

Sure, there will be a cat-and-mouse game where people will figure out how to fake the attestation for some period of time, but general computation[2] is probably on the way out.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trusted_Computing...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg