Over the past few months, I have been deep into learning Clojure, and have been rather
busy doing contract projects over the past year, etc, and not paying much attention to
latest news.
But then I came across this:
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
Seriously? I remember the brouhaha over "Trusted Computing" about a decade ago--
even once found myself with a secondhand ThinkPad that had some kind of bootloader
encryption chip built in (and unused)--, but I thought that whole idea died the death it
so richly deserved.
Is it really back? Am I reading this right? All operating systems to run on any PC must be
signed by MSFT? Certified machines will refuse to boot any loader that isn't
MSFT-approved?
I'm not panicking, because there will probably always be enough CPU's and
Mobo's available from China without all this corporate-ware installed. And if phones
can be jailbroken then PCs can too.
But, still, WTF? Really?
-ken