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Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by stcredzero on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @04:33PM (#10740642)
Yes. Trusted execution that's audited and worthy of the name ("trusted") is sorely needed! This, despite the fact that people associate it with DRM and knee-jerk against it.
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Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by dogma1138 on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @04:57PM (#10740792)
Well it can also serve as DRM it can be made so it locks your OS to only the one that your device came with out of the box and any modification would be impossible.

I wonder if MSFT would ever let OEM's lock the devices to their bloatware spec and if so how long until we get laws similar to SIM unlocks passed to give us customers some control back.

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Re:Qubes OS will ship pre-installed on Purism’s security-foc... by stcredzero on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @07:09PM (#10741460)
Well it can also serve as DRM it can be made so it locks your OS to only the one that your device came with out of the box and any modification would be impossible.

Not the sort of behavior I would classify as "trustworthy".

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