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Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Should OS makers, like Microsoft, be legally required to provide 15 years of security updates?

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[–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Correct, the "obsolete" PCs can't update to Windows 11. The Windows 11 update forces certain hardware support that a lot of devices don't have. The security this hardware provides is mainly in someone physically removing data from your PC. As such it's very business oriented but affects all versions of Windows 11.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    It's not business oriented, it provides a unique ID attached to the machine, cryptographically proven.

    Next step is to use that unique ID to identify you on the internet and digital life. Ending all privacy.

    You think this is far fetched? Kernel-level anti-cheat for games already does this and bans the machine from playing that game ever again.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Couldn't you theoretically swap out the tpm chip? Or spoof/emulate it? If not, how do VMs run Win11, do they just inherit the host tpm chip and that's that? I feel like this was the same goal of having a mac address on each device, and it became irrelevant in short order.

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