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No, that happens only if you reward them with your money (buy that CPU).

You literally have no other option. Intel,AMD,Qualcomm all announced they will be adopting Pluton. Apple devices had black boxes dubbed "security chips" that could very well function the same way if apple decides to utilize it's features to control users.

The world can't run on nerd vanity hardware like RaptorComputing POWER workstations and Honeycomb LX2's

> The world can't run on nerd vanity hardware like RaptorComputing POWER workstations and Honeycomb LX2's

It... Totally can? The only problem with Raptor is that they don't make any cheap hardware. In terms of performance and functionally, they're good.

Ask marcan for more info :) but IIRC Apple's secure element does not do anything by itself and is behind an IOMMU.

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