Age verification laws are moving beyond porn sites and social media. Soon, your operating system could be required to check your age and share it with apps and websites.
Just like Alcohol & Guns, in order to activate these vendor locked motherboards + CPUs, sellers will be required to attestate proper identification in order to unlock these killswitched devices.
All they are waiting on is for the masses to accept buying these. Otherwise you will not be able to compute.
Unless we all collectively operate a fabrication facility, you will have no options.
Just like Alcohol & Guns, in order to activate these vendor locked motherboards + CPUs, sellers will be required to attestate proper identification in order to unlock these killswitched devices.
All they are waiting on is for the masses to accept buying these. Otherwise you will not be able to compute.
Unless we all collectively operate a fabrication facility, you will have no options.
The firmware gotta somehow interact with the userspace right? What if we just switched to FreeBSD or some other OS?
Theres gotta be some way to weasel trough this.
In the locked UEFI, sure…
By holding corporations accountable?