"Musty Bits" McGee@neil yea. TPM is interesting technically and all but when I see people progressing it in OSS I'm like (sucks teeth)
Laíns ⚡🌈🇵🇸@arichtman @neil it does provide real world value, though. however, it's not something that should ever be required, and I don't think that's the direction OSS is heading, so I don't really see a problem?
@arichtman @neil as someone who has been in a situation where hardware security was critical, and having systems in place to prevent tampering or data extraction from my devices was important, I do appreciate the ability to use something like a TPM to tie the boot process into the firmware configuration, and even hardware status (eg. laptop lid opened, different HW configuration detected)
@MissingClara @neil something like - this
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Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." is not just a statement about a tool being tainted by its origin. It's about what kind of tool a "master" would create: Whips. Chains. Violent suppression. That's the meaning: You cannot just take tools whose purpose and politics is dominance and violence and "make them liberatory". This goes deeper than "just" embedded politics or lofty talks about ethics, it comes down to what kind of relations you believe do and should and must not structure the world.