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From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>,
	jamorris@linux.microsoft.com, sashal@kernel.org,
	kgoldman@us.ibm.com, "Wiseman, Monty (GE Global Research,
	US)" <monty.wiseman@ge.com>,
	Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] KEYS: Measure keys in trusted keyring
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 14:34:54 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1909091429050.19397@namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1568035881.4614.347.camel@linux.ibm.com>

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On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Mimi Zohar wrote:

> The remote attestation server could gate any service based on the
> certificate signer.  The first gated service, based on this feature,
> will probably be network access (eg. TNC).  If/when this feature is
> upstreamed, every company, including financial institutes,
> organizations, and governments will become THE certificate signer for
> their organization, in order to limit access to their network and
> systems.

This is already happening at scale, and a primary use-case for the 
patchset.

> Once that happens, how long will it be until the same
> feature will be abused and used to limit the individual's ability to
> pick and choose which applications may run on their systems.[1]

Isn't this already happening (in a non-abusive way) with mobile devices?

> Mimi
> 
> [1] Refer to Richard Stallman's last paragraph https://www.gnu.org/phi
> losophy/can-you-trust.en.html

Please consider if you really want to be endorsing this individual.


-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-28  0:27 [PATCH 0/1] KEYS: Measure keys in trusted keyring Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2019-08-28  0:27 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2019-09-02 22:04   ` Mimi Zohar
2019-08-29  1:11 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Mimi Zohar
2019-08-30  2:43   ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2019-08-30 18:41     ` Mimi Zohar
2019-09-03 15:54       ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2019-09-09 13:31         ` Mimi Zohar
2019-09-09 21:34           ` James Morris [this message]
2019-09-19 13:18           ` Sasha Levin
2019-09-19 17:12             ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-04 19:29               ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2019-10-04 19:57                 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-04 20:10                   ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2019-10-04 21:58                     ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-05  0:10                       ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2019-10-06 13:17                         ` Mimi Zohar
2019-10-07 15:03                           ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian

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