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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by danudey on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:34PM (#34523805)
> More awareness needs to be made of how this will have a devestating impact on end-user freedom. They're attacking the PC, one of the last holdouts of general-purpose computing freedom.

This situation reminds me of the fuss around Palladium, a solution which seemed to be abandoned by Microsoft on its merits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...

> Edit: nice, downvotes. Hello corpo-authoritarians, we know what's up :-)

This also reminds me of the fuss around Palladium:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m

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