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MS Palladium Patent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the click-here-to-upgrade dept.

Concerned Citizen writes "cryptome has Microsoft's patent for Palladium. Including such gems as: 2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein protecting the rights-managed data comprises: refusing to load the untrusted program into memory. 14. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising: restricting a user to a subset of available functions for manipulating the rights-managed data. And I'm sure we'll all be coerced to agree to Palliadium during a future security patch agreement."

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  1. Re:Coercion. by SkyLeach · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Troll

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    My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so :-p
  2. Re:Coercion. by alfredo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I have been living in a Microsoft free house since 1995. I don't need it, I don't want it infesting my home.

    Computing was supposed to give us freedom, but MS wants to use the computer to control us.

    with the spector of this country becoming a police state, we must question the intrusive nature of MS and its cosy relationship with Ashcroft and other agents of dictatorial control.

    I have friends in the intelligence community, they are rejecting MS products, turning to Linux and BSD for their personal use. I would suggest you follow their lead.

    BTW, this is being posted on a G4 running OSX and Xwindows. There is no MS software infesting this machine.

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  3. Re:HAHAHA by sheldon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Ok, I don't think you are quite getting it.

    It doesn't matter whether Palladium is real or not, or if it's practical or not.

    What is important is that the anti-MS sky is falling conspiracy theorists have something to shout about. That's it, nothing more... It doesn't seem to matter to them that not one of their prior predictions has ever come true.