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If you believe hardware attestation is inevitable, then why bother poisoning the well for fingerprinting? None of that will matter once hardware attestation takes hold
I apologise for a 2nd reply, I just wanted to clarify.
What I cannot readily control (or don't know how) is the internal hunger stemming from the soul (mine or enemy's).
But which hungers get to dominate in a public arena, I do have a say in that. So having some hunger may be inevitable, but making that personal hunger into an impositional system for everyone, that's not inevitable.
So yea, they want hardware attestation now. They're not relaxing until they find out what we do with the fingerprinting ecosystem first. That's laughable.
Since they're going to do what they're going to do, and since the outcome is never set in stone ahead of time but instead has to be discovered by living life, we have no reason not to chase our dreams and ambitions as much as they chase theirs. I have no reason to preemptively block or throttle my energy. I am not here to please any would be nannies. I have fears, but do not allow my fears to impact my logic. And besides I fear surveillance capitalism more than whatever else the "punishment" is promised to be.
I admire the drive. And I am not here to discourage you. The privacy world could always use more driven people. There are tons of projects that can use more supporr, like I2P, Tor, Monero, Internet Archive, Whonix, Qubes, etc. Keep at it and I'm sure we can win.
Nothing is inevitable. Everything is negotiable.