This! It's like having an outbreak of a long forgotten disease in this scenario, won't end humanity, but not great either.
Brummbaer
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That's basically how the bureaucratic class aka. the states middle management works.
The whole mobile ecosystem is a giant hardware backdoor on every phone. I think it's too late now to change anything on that level.
Sorry but this whole thing is just snake-oil.
You can verify and sign your whole trust chain down to the last shared library and it doesn't matter when you don't know what the binary blobs on your TPM / CPU / BIOS / NIC are doing.
The only guarantee to a secure system is openness an all of that signing won't help you there.
I don't trust Microsoft, why should I start trusting IBM/Canonical or Poettering now.
If the possibility is there they will happily lock you out of your own hardware.
It's the end of the Silicon Valley era. In a few years I guess new and faster stuff will come from China.
Interesting, I wonder if you could do the same now with Internet. We know that DSL works over a wet rope.
It's a combination of AI and stupidity. If these people knew what they were doing we would either be better or worse off, it's a gambit.