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> The cryptography community outside the military-industrial complex today is > largely primed to call out Clipper Chip style bullshit whenever it happens. > (See also: the EU’s ChatControl.)

It’s worth noting that we rarely get mad about the clipper chip problem because, honestly, it’s basically standard now. Almost every device we own—laptops, phones, servers—runs a secure enclave or similar signed security processor that sits above the hypervisor level.

We’ve been accepting this architecture for over a decade. Yes, there are efforts to limit their power, but they’re becoming a bigger threat, not smaller. And let’s be real, these things leak. We’ve seen master keys and exploits in Xbox, PS3/4, and various Nvidia incidents. There are probably others out there that we just don’t know about yet.

Hey spiritplumber, that's a nick I have not seen in many years! Are you still working on any of the old models from back during the vegastrike era? I remember you prolificly produced a ton of wing commander models, I think at least some had gotten used in other projects, but then vegastrike 0.5 changed a bunch of formatting?

Anyways just wanted to say I appreciated all the work you did and thought it was cool to randomly run across you here!