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  The creator of systemd (Lennart Poettering) has recently created a new company dedicated to bringing hardware attestation to open source software. What might this entail? A previous blog post could provide some clues: So, let’s see how I would build a desktop OS. The trust chain matters, from the boot loader all the way to the apps. This means all code that is run must be cryptographically validated before it is run. This is in fact where big distributions currently fail pretty badly. This...