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Palladium, 'Trusted PCs' in the News

Posted by michael on from the spin-control dept.

Reuters is carrying a fairly lengthy article on Palladium and 'Trusted Computing'. Worth reading - remember that what the Reuters/AP wires carry is all that most people will ever know about any particular issue.

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  1. Yup by cscx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Palladium involves new security components to be built into Windows, but it also depends heavily on hardware makers--including Intel and AMD--building in Palladium functionality to their products.

  2. Seth Schoen's Palladium Summary by pberry · · Score: 5, Informative

    When Microsoft came to talk to us about Palladium, Seth took some notes and did this write up.

    --
    -- Are you an EFF member yet?
  3. Re:Heh by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 3, Informative
    Infact Bill Gates himself called these TCPA chips as bouncers in your system to make sure everything is behaving properly. (bouncers??)
    Yes. This is a good thing. Properly behaved software is a good thing. Unbehaved software contains "bugs". Bugs are bad.
    In that case, let's not worry. Microsoft track record ensures that we will never see "properly behaved software" coming from them.
  4. The theft of our freedoms by frank_slashdot · · Score: 2, Informative


    The worst of all is that people will be forced to use Palladium or TCPA machines, when laws like CBDTPA (the former SSSCA) will be passed.

    Thus, sooner or later, the right to share will be outlawed, and people will no longer be able to "turn DRM off".

    When no TCPA-free or Palladium-free hardware will be available and the ISPs will only allow TCPA machines to be connected to the Internet, there will be no alternative.

    The worst of all, most of the people are totally unaware that many of their freedoms are about to be stolen.

    For an introduction see:

    http://action.eff.org/tinseltown/

    http://www.eff.org/IP/SSSCA_CBDTPA/

    TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions

    http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html

    "The Right to Read" by Richard M. Stallman.

    http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

    (The important thing about this story is that it was written before the DMCA was even proposed!)

    "What's Wrong With Copy Protection" by John Gilmore.

    http://cryptome.org/jg-wwwcp.htm


  5. You will will be forced to use TCPA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    When laws such as CBDTPA will be passed, you will not be able to "disable" TCPA and install anything but a TCPA compliant OS, like Palladium or maybe some DRM Linux from HP http://cryptome.org/tcpa-rja2.htm

  6. Bullshit by dachshund · · Score: 2, Informative
    So China is pushing a non GPL Fork of Linux that we will NEVER see the benifit from except as a retail product from IBM.

    1. China may be able to ignore the GPL within their own country, but if IBM or any other company ever offers it as a retail product in a country that enforces copyright treaties, they'll still have to release source under the GPL.

    2. Lack of copyright protection cuts both ways. The Chinese may be able to ignore the GPL and not release their source code, but all it takes is one disgruntled coder smuggling their source to a public place. Any such code would be free for the taking; and it'd be completely legal to do so.

    3. The Chinese would be foolish to fork their Linux project too far away from the rest of the world. As long as it remains closely related to our Linux, they can take advantage of all of the work being done internationally. Make it too different and they begin to lose those resources. See (2) for why this eventually benefits us.