TEEs are the same as World’s proof of personhood, but opposite

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just some degree of verifiability slapped onto execution

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I’m not sure if you're actually in favor of TEEs or not, but I'd encourage you to reconsider — they work for defense in depth, but when they're the basis of security altogether, they're a house of cards, waiting for any one card (and there's many of them) to be plucked.

I'll just pick all of them.
Intel:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/architectural-bug-in-some-intel-cpus-is-more-bad-news-for-sgx-users/
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/27/intel_root_key_xeons/ (Read the entire article before stopping at Intel's response)
https://cubist.dev/blog/intel-sgx-is-broken-again-what-the-downfall-attack-means-for-secure-hardware
https://sgx.fail
https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-is-patching-a-load-of-serious-software-security-holes
AMD:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/12/11/badram-amd-hack-cve-2024-21944/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14717
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-cachewarp-amd-cpu-attack-lets-hackers-gain-root-in-linux-vms/
Apple:
https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/01/new-unpatchable-exploit-allegedly-found-on-apples-secure-enclave-chip-heres-what-it-could-mean/
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/
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What’s a specific example? Against a steelmanned TEE?