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.""

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Mail our senator

[isorox]

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!