Re:Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the ...
by GekkePrutser on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:03AM
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Governments might make it illegal to run these "dangerous" unsupervised OSes though. Or what could happen is that your bank, government website etc fails to work "for your protection" because your machine fails attestation. This is something that's already being done on Android with SafetyNet, albeit with apps instead of websites.
In addition the EU is also working on an online ID so a website can request your real identity and verify it. This would link in with that, validate the user as well as their hardware.
Right now? No. But I could see it happen in 10 years. Especially once CSAM is no longer the scapegoat and they have admitted they want the data for a lot more surveillance. I can already see the posts of people that think they have nothing to hide.
Re:Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the ...
by LinuxBender on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:03PM
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I agree with you. My personal hope is that the smaller distributions do not garner enough attention and the big companies leave them alone while at the same time having enough community developers keeping them alive and not infiltrated by developers that want to drive people to the corporate distros.
Re:Data shows that the EU's CSAM scanning will not have the ...
by _fat_santa on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:23AM
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There are far too many distros out there. There are hundreds if not thousands listed on DistroWatch
I disagree. It might happen to some flavors of Linux like Fedora, Ubuntu and others that are backed by companies. But because the source is open, there will always be distributions that do not have such a restriction.