How Stuff Gets eXposed
Good. This concept of continually restricting the owner of a processor from controlling the code that executes on his machine is a futile attempt at providing &quot;products&quot; which are nothing more than theft. The only reason this is a requirement for POWERDVD is because they insist on treating people like thieves and locking down the ability to watch high quality movies behind a wall that keeps the user from seeing and controlling code executed on their device.<p>The Secret Network is also attempting to force users to execute code which they cannot inspect or modify in order to implement the core component that sets their bullshit crypto block chain aside from Ethereum, for example. They&#x27;re not selling some novel software. They&#x27;re selling Ethereum running in SGX to keep you from copying NFTs or inspecting the content of smart contracts. Furthermore, anyone running this or other SGX software should be ashamed of themselves for allowing these thieves to pretend they&#x27;re doing anything other than taking advantage of a poorly implemented scheme to deprive you of your control over your property.<p>Few people seem to recall the blowback Intel got over their Pentium III chips containing a unique processor ID, and how they went as far as having the ID disabled by default in every BIOS to keep people from mass migrating to AMD. The same thing should happen with these trash SGX implementations, and the most embarrassing thing is that Intel plans to launch software defined silicon, making users pay for CPU features while shipping the exact same chip to everyone. One of the main features they want to ship to eveyone and sell to suckers is SGX itself. You can see this here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-officially-introduces-pay-as-you-go-chip-licensing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;intel-officially-introduce...</a><p>Frankly, everyone should be ashamed for using Intel hardware when AMD chips do not abuse the user with these schemes and generally allow much more freedom. Intel makes people pay for frequency unlocked chips, pay for features shipped with the chip, and even pay to have code they do not control run on their system. If this isn&#x27;t an absolute embarrassment to anyone purchasing CPUs, it&#x27;s a poor reflection on them and their obvious stupidity and contempt for their own freedom.