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Comment by AnimalMuppet | Hacker News Reader

Let me see... Microsoft wants me to have a Microsoft account to use a computer that I bought. They nag me every time I log in because I gave them a bogus email address.

And then you read something like this. All those abstract privacy concerns just got a bit more concrete...

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And yet when they limit their new version of Windows specifically to devices that cant have rootkits installed, everyone freaks out.

...maybe they know that people are installing root kits... because they see first hand what the "good" guys are doing routinely.

Who said you can't have rootkits on newer processors? Microsoft signed a bunch of rootkits and that was news last week? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640553

It's not "rootkits" per se that are restricted right? It's unsigned code. Who has access to the signing keys?

It is solving the problem of unauthorised rootkits.

> devices that cant have rootkits installed

And jail cells are just very secure apartments. There's always going to be a guard around to let you out, why is everyone freaking out?

I see exactly zero connection between preventing rootkits and demanding that I give them my email address.

There was a story just the other day about how Microsoft has been signing rootkits. The new "security measures" don't do crap for malware and just make legitimate uses of the machine (installing software that respects your freedom) harder.

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