Let’s all pray this toy project, if readily upgradable, is also trackable and well … the way we keep law and order is by actual policing and prosecuting. So hopefully this doesn’t get out of hand.

Very impressive, but very troubling.

I mean for such a dev focused and extremely performant app, that’s disappointing.

Glad I’m off windows as of late

this basically will remove or significantly encumber user control over their system, such that any modification will make you loose your "signed" status and ... boom! goodbye accessing the internet without an id

pottering recently works for Microsoft, they want to turn linux into an appliance just like windows, no longer a general purpose os. the transition is still far from over on windows, but look at android and how the google play services dependency/choke-hold is

im sure ill get many down votes, but despite some hyperbole this is the trajectory

To my eye most Linux de’s are much lighter or responsive than windows or Mac

What if the foss app has the “scanning” but can be disabled with a compile time flag

Is my email client going to have to implement this scanning if I use pgp?

Every few months there’s a new cpu/bios/firmware vuln since spectre

Very stubborn and “opinionated”

I think most models will tend this way (to consolidate more control over how we “think” and what we believe)