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We are past the stage where it can be solved by technological means. This issue is strictly political and economical.

Once this tech reaches critical mass of adoption, you might have trouble participating in the modern world since your device is not "trusted". Much like how Android's safetynet prevents running banking apps if boot time signatures do not mach an approved list.

The Raspberry Pi foundation is working on adding a signed bootloader and trusted computing to their next chip. I'm looking for the source I found, and I thought it was [1] but don't see the text there anymore.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bullseye-bonus-1-8ghz-raspb...

Wayback machine does not show any such changes on a cursory glance.

Qualcomm's ARM machines will have this too.

Qualcomm said they going to be partner with Microsoft.

RISC-V is the future for no backdoor.

What's to stop RISC-V CPU manufacturers doing the same?