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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by kuratkull on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:49PM (#29102043)
Each and every second-hand buyer in the world would block nvidia in the firewall after that. You know you need to tighten the screws when your GPU is trying to phone home.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by berkes on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:39AM (#29104388)
In that case, it can easily be swapped around: card won't run unless it can reach an online endpoint. E.g. to fetch some binary blob that must be loaded in firmware. Only handed out and signed when requester is known to be legit.

Not saying I'd like this, or that I endorse this, though.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by NullPrefix on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:27AM (#29106886)
Stallman was right
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