smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementationwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoEli5, what are the security risks of my HDMI cable?
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoPiracy being easier is the only risk. Once again ruining the experience of legitimate customers to try and stop a thing that they have had no success at even slowing down.
minus-squareActers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoEven further, it made it more expensive to buy products from all the dumb licensing fees that all the middlemen try to shoehorn in.
minus-squaresmileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoHaving to use systems that swing to more closed solutions is going to degrade security in more places.
minus-squareEideen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoHDMI 2.1cspecs are closed source.
Eli5, what are the security risks of my HDMI cable?
The security of mega Corp IP.
Piracy being easier is the only risk. Once again ruining the experience of legitimate customers to try and stop a thing that they have had no success at even slowing down.
Even further, it made it more expensive to buy products from all the dumb licensing fees that all the middlemen try to shoehorn in.
Having to use systems that swing to more closed solutions is going to degrade security in more places.
HDMI 2.1cspecs are closed source.