What and selling CPUs/firmware with writable boot keys will be contraband like some sort of cyberpunk novel? What will they do about microcontrollers etc?
Worst case this makes a mess but the practical reality is there's no way to actually make it work. --Stephen On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 04:16:28AM +0100, Benjamin Lee McQueen wrote: > On 2026-03-05 04:06, jslee wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2026, at 13:45, Benjamin Lee McQueen wrote: > > > secure boot and age verification apis are not the same thing. stop > > > conflating them. > > > > What do you think the likely approach to preventing circumvention (eg. > > via installing an OS that refuses to engage in such chicanery) is going > > to be? > > uefi lockdown and hardware attestation. > if microsoft, apple, and google are all legally required to implement this, > and you can just wipe the drive and install openbsd to bypass it, then the > law is trivially circumventable. regulators will eventually notice this and > the pressure moves to hardware vendors and firmware. > that's the real threat. not the law as written today, but what comes next > when they realize it doesn't work. >
