It doesn't necessarily need to be a backdoor. Look up Remote Attestation, which is getting easier every year. With that, you can run whatever software you want on your device - but other servers do not need to talk to your device if they detect that you are.
It's coming up in Android more with SafetyNet. If your device is rooted, you fail SafetyNet. If you fail SafetyNet, almost all banking app servers will refuse to talk to you, rendering their apps useless. SafetyNet could be spoofed historically, but SafetyNet is moving into hardware instead of software since ~2020, so the spoofing has gotten way, way harder and may cross into downright impossible.
It's also coming to Windows with the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement. See the video game Valorant, for example. If you are on Windows 11, it will mandate that you have a TPM 2.0 enabled and Secure Boot enabled. It has exceptions for VMs and Windows 10 and earlier right now - but they can literally close that door, at any time, and immediately remotely lock all machines to that requirement. No amount of game patching will bypass it - the multiplayer servers won't talk to you unless your hardware cryptographically reports that you've passed Secure Boot checks.
> It's also coming to Windows with the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement.
My Lenovo L430 is apparently incapable of running Win11 for that reason. Win10 will soon be out of support, so I'm preparing to blow away my last-ever Windows system, and become all-Linux. I'm looking forward to it.
Isn't 'soon' 3 years from now? And it'll definitely impact PCs more than 7-10 years old at that point, but that's kind of a hard number to get worked up about. If it's that big a deal, when the deadline gets closer buy a new-to-you 7 year old machine for a couple hundred dollars.
You're right; I thought it was coming up in November. I wonder why I thought that? It might be a message that Microsoft presented to me after the forced update I received yesterday morning, while I was trying to use the damned machine.
If you fail SafetyNet, almost all banking app servers will refuse to talk to you
This is probably unique to me but I see that as a bonus security feature. All I want to use the phone for is voice, text, mumble, irc and ssh/sftp, only things hosted by me. Im still trying to find a non-google rom that is well supported for my model of android. If I could get a vendor unlocked CAT I would turn the droid into a dedicated mp3 player.
It's coming up in Android more with SafetyNet. If your device is rooted, you fail SafetyNet. If you fail SafetyNet, almost all banking app servers will refuse to talk to you, rendering their apps useless. SafetyNet could be spoofed historically, but SafetyNet is moving into hardware instead of software since ~2020, so the spoofing has gotten way, way harder and may cross into downright impossible.
It's also coming to Windows with the Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement. See the video game Valorant, for example. If you are on Windows 11, it will mandate that you have a TPM 2.0 enabled and Secure Boot enabled. It has exceptions for VMs and Windows 10 and earlier right now - but they can literally close that door, at any time, and immediately remotely lock all machines to that requirement. No amount of game patching will bypass it - the multiplayer servers won't talk to you unless your hardware cryptographically reports that you've passed Secure Boot checks.