• NoLemurs
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    23 hours ago

    I’m just not convinced that mandatory hardware attestation is actually a real problem we need to worry about.

    Like, yes, people with high security jobs will have that for sure. And they should.

    But large companies that want customers? They want to make it as easy as possible for their customers to connect. They’re not going to force people to have a hardware device which if damaged or lost will lose them a customer. That’s just not what they want.

    • JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net
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      17 hours ago

      And yet, it’s there.

      Embrace, extend, extinguish as in literally every single corporate case. Thousands of rug pulls later and we still haven’t learned our lesson.

      In this case: first get people in the door en masse, then expand the requirements for things like hardware attestation in a transition period, then vendor lock people.

      Adobe would never move to cloud only, that would lose them customers.

      See: Literally every single API rug pull ever. Reddit, Unity, etc… Get people using the API and infrastructure, then switch from free to huge fees.

      See: cloud companies giving good deals for storage and then charging massive fees for output bandwidth to access or move that data

      See: VMware rug pull

      This is the exact same except they are telling us what they are going to do from the start. When someone tells you how shitty they are, listen.