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On 2024-12-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-17 à 01:20, vallor a écrit :
>> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:56:35 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vjr3qj$1it5e$1@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> On 17 Dec 2024 05:09:30 GMT, vallor wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's almost as if Microsoft has decided its customers are now its
>>>> beta-testers.
>>>
>>> You mean, you just discovered? Some of us noticed this happening years
>>> ago.
>> 
>> They're more overt about it now.
>> 
>> It's too bad that anti-trust enforcement is so defanged in
>> our government.  The whole "TPM 2 for Windows 11" thing is screwing
>> up the marketplace.
>
> God forbid Microsoft would want Windows users to have the security 
> they've been clamoring for! Those assholes! Why can't they just open up 
> the hardware entirely and ensure that every part of it is exploited?!

It's not security they're concerned about, it's making sure that the back 
doors are up and running. It's the opposite of security. 

It's also a way to ensure computer manufacturers stick with the monopoly 
company that forces people to buy their products again. A symbiotic 
relationship.

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien