Re:I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you do...
by mschuster91 on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:08PM
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> But I think the point of your parent comment's reply was that the inevitable adoption of this same techonology in the consumer-level environment is a bad thing.
And this has happened before, with Intel ME that was and still is useful if you have a fleet of servers to manage but a hell of a security hole outside of corporate world.
And now that Windows 11 all but requires a working TPM to install (although there are ways to bypass it for now), I would not be surprised if Netflix and the rest of the content MAFIAA would follow their Android approach and demand that the user have Secure Boot enabled, only Microsoft-certified kernel drivers loaded and the decryption running in an OS-secured sandbox that even a Local Administrator-level account can access.
And this has happened before, with Intel ME that was and still is useful if you have a fleet of servers to manage but a hell of a security hole outside of corporate world.
And now that Windows 11 all but requires a working TPM to install (although there are ways to bypass it for now), I would not be surprised if Netflix and the rest of the content MAFIAA would follow their Android approach and demand that the user have Secure Boot enabled, only Microsoft-certified kernel drivers loaded and the decryption running in an OS-secured sandbox that even a Local Administrator-level account can access.