alt Hacker NewsThis is an extreme opinion and is not surprisingly unpopular and downvoted but one must realise that it is exactly how the governments were thinking when they wanted to ban encryption, and how the export restrictions and classification as a munition came about. Now companies are wielding it against us.
I think you misunderstand the point I'm making. Governments love having this centralized ability to attest hardware and control what software can be run. This is why for instance the EU has really slow-walked and watered down side loading requirements for Apple.