Digital Restrictions (DRM) From Disney and... Purism
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It’s Not Just You: Disney+ Doesn’t Work on Linux ATM [Ed: Digital Restrictions (DRM) are not a feature and no need to celebrate DRM in Linux]
Linux users are experiencing issues when attempting to stream content from Disney+, despite the video-streaming service explicitly adding Linux support a few years back.
So what’s up?
Well, some diligent debugging by YouTuber gnifs-tech detects that that cause of the issue is a bug in analytics code running on the video streaming site. Changing the user agent string of a Linux browser to pretend it is running on Windows magically fixes the issue, and users can stream content from Disney+ on Linux without any issue.
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Introducing PureBoot Restricted Boot [Ed: Purism jumps the shark with fake security]
We have been busy on the PureBoot front! Recently we announced “PureBoot Basic Mode” which is a low-security option for PureBoot that disables tamper detection, but leaves you with the robust PureBoot recovery console for debugging boot issues. To balance our last “low security” feature, our most recent PureBoot release, version 23, offers a new high-security feature called Restricted Boot. By default PureBoot will allow you to boot any USB disk you choose, and offers a failsafe boot mode so you can boot into your system even if signatures don’t match. Restricted Boot tightens down boot security so you can only boot trusted, signed boot images. In this post I will describe the thinking and design behind Restricted Boot and how it contrasts with boot restrictions on other platforms.