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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux
From:       Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel () gmail ! com>
Date:       2022-07-29 5:58:10
Message-ID: CAOCN9rw7ZUNqttV-9s7awgqEFYe2jnRbr9uRUSDB1pJsui4HPg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 9:16 PM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Chris Murphy wrote:
> > Summary: Windows 10/11 increasingly enables Bitlocker (full disk
> > encryption) out of the box with the encryption key sealed in the TPM.
> […]
> > The Bitlocker encryption key is unsealed only if the boot chain
> > measurement by the TPM matches the expected values in a TPM PCR.
>
> So, basically, they set up things without the user's knowledge so that the
> user's data can only be decrypted from Windows, only when booted directly,
> and only with Restricted Boot enabled. Does that not fit the definition of
> ransomware? Treacherous Computing at its finest… Does anyone still believe
> that all this is about security?

It's DRM, not ransomware. It's locking in, not deleting, your existing
access and tying it to specific hardware and software. It was
presented originally as a "security feature", but it was pretty clear
from day one that it was designed for digital rights management and
vendor lock-in.
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