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CBDTPA == TCPA Enablement Act?
Ian Hill writes "This e-mail from Lucky Green, courtesy of Cryptome, provides an interesting look into the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. It suggests that this is the technology pointed to by Sen. Hollings in his CBDTPA.
Frightening quote: "'trusted' here means that the members of the TCPA trust that the TPM [Trusted Platform Module] will make it near impossible for the owner of that motherboard to access supervisor mode on the CPU without their knowledge, they trust that the TPM will enable them to determine remotely if the customer has a kernel-level debugger loaded, and they trust that the TPM will prevent a user from bypassing OS protections by installing custom PCI cards to read out memory directly via DMA without going through the CPU.""
Three in a row. Is this a record?
Between this and the first post stuff, is there just a lot more crack going around this morning than normal for a Monday?
Thats right, write out a letter, stick a stamp on it and mail to your senator with your worries.
Then when you've done that mail your local journalist, your radio station, your dog. If it gets desperate say that you worry your inability to control hardware that you have bought in your own home is extremely dangerous and could allow terroists to gain hold of it - that'll work. Failing that say that without control over your own products, your children will be able to access all sorts of illegal information and get into trouble. Dont bother putting in methdos, politicions dont care about them!
Isn't this news flash insanely important enough for everyone to see?
Let them get their own toilet paper.
Liberty in your lifetime
Show me this hardware and I'll show you a product which consumers won't buy.
Looks like it's going to be time for another tea party.
or is karma whoring getting easier?
wonder if this will create a whole new kind of black market one for servers ,proccessers and generel hardware. think about ti. would you realy want your server to report back what you do, costing you bandwidth and problably slowing you down. another thought if your con cable how much bandwidth will the monitoring system use?
hmmmmm hopefully an asain chipmaker besides cyrix stands to the occasion.
of this could be a problem too
http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp?cp1=1
...the scary thing is though, it was just fiction at the time.
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http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.htm
Wait and see eh =\
They can also trust that there will be (East-Asian?) manufacturers who will not comply with their oppressive laws, and that people in the so-called Free countries will be buying this hardware, at least for a while. I wonder where this is leading, though, and to be honest, I've lost track of what it's all about. People have been able to make illegal copies ever since the invention of copyright (before that they could copy, but it wasn't illegal), and there will be ways to make copies as long as there will be ways to use. It is a battle the draconians cannot win. Is it so hard for governments to realize that all that happens is criminalization of fair use, while pirates go mostly unharmed? The manufacturers of the pirating hardware to be are laughing in their beards now, soon this hardware will be illegal, making them immune to market forces so that they can charge basically any sum they like! Where do terrorists get their money? If you enact these laws, some of it may be coming from you!
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Some Windows were made to be broken.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.