On Thu, 5 Mar 2026, at 11:57, Kevin wrote: > California != Canada > > The end.
A rather myopic post, IMO. Firstly, regarding the most likely enforcement mechanism: Have you forgotten (or were you not around for) the “Trusted Computing” and “Secure Boot” saga? Don’t be so quick to believe that you’ll always be able to turn it off/work around restrictions of what boot images your computer will allow. Secondly, regarding “it’s just California”, and trying to not be too political here: have you not noticed the multiple waves of nations implementing eerily similar legislation at around the same time? Eg. age verification for social media, or requiring[1] platform vendors like Apple to provide backdoors when requested. It may well be only California now, but don’t expect that to remain true for very long. And if it’s enforced via the “trusted” platform stuff, how do you expect the motherboard manufacturers to respond? SKUs per variant of the laws? Sounds unwieldy and inefficient and expensive I do fervently hope it ends up being a storm in teacup, as the saying goes, but I’m not feeling particularly confident about it. [1] see “assistance and access” legislation in Australia and equivalents in quite a few other nations John
