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[–] 62 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

Our luck was that personal computers existed before phones. The fact computing is open is a miracle.

Microsoft would love to only sell computers with locked bootloaders, enforced DRM, locked down stores. Imagine having to jailbreak your desktop.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    People call me paranoid, but after my dad’s MS Surface spontaneously encrypted itself and lost the recovery keys, my belief is that what you described is the goal they are working towards.

    Apple already does all of this along with client side scanning and MS is falling over itself to implement the same ecosystem.

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