To mitigate the risk of misuse, some pundits and policymakers propose requiring hardware “kill switches” or built-in controls that can remotely disable GPUs without user knowledge and consent. Some suspect they might already exist. NVIDIA GPUs do not and should not have kill switches and backdoors.
  • lad@programming.devEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Sounds nice, especially considering how they tried to limit consumer-grade GPU ability to mine cryptocurrency. It may have been a noble effort, but it was both futile and anti-consumer.