electric_dreams

How do you know it doesn't report back to FAANG?

Perhaps the author never heard of CreateEnclave().

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/enclaveap...

I never considered Microsoft as villains in the 90s. They were the only company making computers usable, and thanks to them I didn't have to use the archaic Unix systems that were prevalent at the time. Microsoft was being unfairly punished for things that are commonplace today, like integrating browsers with operating systems.