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Trusted computing is just another name for vendor lock-in. It was never about security.

A more generous explanation is that it might be both — vendor lock-in also happens to be a security measure.

Having important info on your device and having that device accessible to the wild, wild, internet is a very real problem. If the "walled garden" is a flawed solution we should work on a better one.

Having a separate dedicated general purpose computing device not connected to the open internet perhaps.

Anyone who thinks that vendor lock-in is a security feature didn't learn a thing from the Crowdstrike incident last year. The biggest security incident in the history of the entire internet was caused by a cybersecurity ''vendor''.

It's really about keeping third-party interests secure from the users. Pesky users being allowed to run their own code thwarts control efforts.

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