Brummbaer

Have you seen Merz? Germany would instantly fall to the US side if that happens.

The Chinese can do less harm with my data than the US and it’s allies.

I don’t understand why they are signing it. I mean we know that Microsoft is hostile, why submit to their signing bullshit.

The more you normalise bad behaviour the worse it gets.

It’s a cheap Chinese made, it prints when I turn it on and that’s like every two months for the last 3 years. So I guess it’s good. I also only use it to print from linux or my phone.

I got a cheap Xerox laser printer, the toner is cheap and lasts forever.

The whole mobile ecosystem is a giant hardware backdoor on every phone. I think it’s too late now to change anything on that level.

Sorry but this whole thing is just snake-oil.

You can verify and sign your whole trust chain down to the last shared library and it doesn’t matter when you don’t know what the binary blobs on your TPM / CPU / BIOS / NIC are doing.

The only guarantee to a secure system is openness an all of that signing won’t help you there.

I don’t trust Microsoft, why should I start trusting IBM/Canonical or Poettering now.

If the possibility is there they will happily lock you out of your own hardware.

Interesting, I wonder if you could do the same now with Internet. We know that DSL works over a wet rope.