Re:The boiling frog of digital freedom
by nvm0n2 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:24AM
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How does it follow though. Bootloader locking and remote attestation don't stop you recycling devices or even repurposing them. They stop you changing the OS stack to an unknown one and then using them for the exact same purposes as before. That's much harder to explain and it boils down to in most cases, people still in love with the idea that one day a hacker/grassroots OS may become popular. Which is fun for developers to imagine but has no relevance to any end users.
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Re:The boiling frog of digital freedom
by flangola7 on Sunday September 03, 2023 @08:55AM
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>Bootloader locking and remote attestation don't stop you recycling devices or even repurposing them.
Not even close to true.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/43jywd/why-tens-of-thousands...
Anti-theft features aren't anything to do with remote attestation, and this feature does not stop recycling the devices, it just means that only Apple can recycle them. Which would likely be true anyway due to how integrated the components are.
Re:The boiling frog of digital freedom
by flangola7 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @09:48AM
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> Anti-theft features aren't anything to do with remote attestation, and this feature does not stop recycling the devices
Activation Lock relies on a remote attestation mechanism. It will not unlock without a connection to Apple's servers and can't be bypassed on the device.
>it just means that only Apple can recycle them. Which would be a problem
>Which would likely be true anyway due to how integrated the components are. You don't need Apple to melt down gold