Re:Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis
by userbinator on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @12:06PM
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Of course it also allows real DRM
I think thats's the scariest part. 16 years ago people strongly oppposed the processor serial number in the P3( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106870 ), something that seems almost harmless compared to what (anti-user) "security" features are in today's hardware. It's not only DRM, but no doubt other ways of taking control away from the user will be found for it.
With performance not being all that much better, I'm personally going to stay on older, "more free" hardware for a while.
I think thats's the scariest part. 16 years ago people strongly oppposed the processor serial number in the P3( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10106870 ), something that seems almost harmless compared to what (anti-user) "security" features are in today's hardware. It's not only DRM, but no doubt other ways of taking control away from the user will be found for it.
With performance not being all that much better, I'm personally going to stay on older, "more free" hardware for a while.