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To: dayglored

While it seems (by lack of response) no one is interested, much less alarmed by the potential for abuse of Trusted Computing, and most of the warnings by the Free Software Foundation are dated and who seems to be libertarians whose main concern is freedom for pirated media and porn, yet with the trajectory of increasing censorship and pressure to submit to Wokism by the Left, then I foresee the day when financial transactions cannot be made without TPM activation and perhaps also enabling a means of ideological control, treating non-PC use and expressions as malware. At least I think that is the dream of many.

The less souls are controlled from within, by God and godly conscience, then indeed they need to be watched and controlled from without, this increasing the power of the state and its corporate allies, but insofar as the state is not controlled by God and godly conscience then the more it can use its means of control against those who are.


20 posted on 10/29/2021 3:20:39 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: daniel1212
> ...I foresee the day when financial transactions cannot be made without TPM activation and perhaps also enabling a means of ideological control...

I am deeply suspicious of so-called "Trusted Computing" and "Trusted Platform Modules".

First, I'm supposed to believe that the designers have only good intentions and have not been bought off by powerful interests whose motives I disagree with. Well, I don't believe that.

Second, a name like "Trusted" is marketing BS, on the face of it. Trusted by whom, to act how?

Finally, the fact that TPM is mandated is like the ironic meme: "SOCIALISM: Ideas so good they're mandatory."

CONTROL - CONTROL - CONTROL is what it's all about. Loss of choice, loss of freedom, loss of individuality.

25 posted on 10/29/2021 6:32:34 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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