moonleay@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoU.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square149fedilinkarrow-up1474arrow-down13
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minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·2 months agoI can’t imagine this would be effective at all. Assuming it uses GPS, big datacenters could simply spoof the GPS signal, and consumers could block the GPU from receiving the signal (a fully metal PC case is almost a Faraday cage already).
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 months agonot just that. but GPS is one way communication. how will it call home to HQ?
minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoThat’s why they need to be able to monitor everything on the internet. Not for anything fascist, we promise.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou had me worried there for a second.
I can’t imagine this would be effective at all. Assuming it uses GPS, big datacenters could simply spoof the GPS signal, and consumers could block the GPU from receiving the signal (a fully metal PC case is almost a Faraday cage already).
not just that. but GPS is one way communication. how will it call home to HQ?
That’s why they need to be able to monitor everything on the internet.
Not for anything fascist, we promise.
You had me worried there for a second.