Re: The Achilles Heel Of Secure Boot: Certificate Revocation

Dave Yeo  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> What used to be a general-purpose computer has become an appliance.  And
>> that's maybe okay if you want an appliance.  But some people actually want
>> a general-purpose computer.  We seem to be in the minority though.
>
>I blame Jobs, who in the early Mac days said a computer should be like a 
>toaster. Though if not Jobs, some other marketer would have done the same.

Indeed.  I had a friend in grad school who was so excited about the Mac,
saying that it was going to be like a Lisa for $2k.  But it was absolutely
nothing, nothing at all like a Lisa.

I do think that appliances and actual computers can co-exist in the market
but I think it's important to distingush between them.  And I think that 
even appliances should be controlled by the user.  But that's just me and
I don't run the Consumer Protection Bureau.
--scott

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