[bragh]

Oh, the people who work on secure boot, attestation, DRM, and other such features know very well, but don't care. This is because the claimed benefits for them, such as less hackers, less malware, less bot traffic, outweigh any possible downsides for the society.

[JohnFen]

I think it's even worse than that. Our industry has a strong track record of only looking at potential upsides (and pretending they're certain) and not even seeing that there may be serious downsides.

It's a kind of blindness. The kind that is, in my opinion, is one of the major reasons why we ended up building a world that's more than a bit dystopian.

[account42]

There is definitely a common type of computer security enthusiast for whom the need for security is absolute and costs don't even enter the equation.

[izacus]

Ironically, Signal folks have shown those leanings a lot when they forbade people from backing up their messages.

[trumpdong]

The difference is who controls it. If you want to set up secure boot with your own keys, good on you, go for it.

[account42]

That's exactly the shortsighted view I'm talking about - you are ignoring the cost of building/adopting a system that you may not control in the future.