CBDTPA == TCPA Enablement Act?

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 24, 2002 @12:36AM from the regulate-what-you-know dept.

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.""

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Re:Why isn't this on the front page? by anthony_dipierro · 2002-06-24 02:16 · Score: 3, Informative

No, it's purely rumor. Some guy wrote an email to some other guy saying that a dead bill might do something which we all knew it was designed to do anyway (take away our computing freedom, not necessarily enable the TCPA).