Jörg Bornschein wrote:
We are discussing in the context of l4-hurd, an free (as in "open
source") operating system. So right now, this cost is reduced to
"install another version with an integrated debugger". This cost is
IMHO negligible.
Maybe I should write down where I'd like to end up:
Given a non-TPM, open source system which hardware I own: opaque memory
is a voluntary feature which can not be relied on. (in the eyes of a
software "vendor").
Especially: It does not harm the the idea (ideology) of information freedom.
In this case its more comparable to the private/protected access
modifier in most object oriented programming languages.
This conclusion (right now) does not hold in the cases of "TPM enabled
system" or "I'm not the hardware owner". These cases should be
considered independently.
j.
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