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RMS Urges Opposition to "Trusted Computing"

Posted by michael on from the newspeak dept.

Andy Tai writes "In this Newsforge article, Richard Stallman analyzes the "Trusted Computing" initiative and Microsoft's Palladium, points out that such initiatives are really means to ensure your computer can be trusted by Microsoft and Hollywood (you can't do things they don't want), and urges computer users to organize, to support the Public Knowledge and the Digital Speech projects and to use their consumer power to block "Trusted Computing" in its tracks."

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  1. Next week in slashdot -- water is wet! by Codex+The+Sloth · · Score: 1, Troll

    My first reaction on reading this was "Well duh!" -- must be a sloowww day at Slashdot...

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  2. Re:Word usage by donutello · · Score: 1, Troll

    Please spend some time reading up about the technology before spouting off about it.

    "Trusted" applications in Palladium run in a protected data space. As such, it is impossible (barring bugs in the hardware) for other applications to access their memory, etc.

    Really, you should spend more time reading about Palladium before you believe the FUD that RMS et al spout off about it in the so-called FAQs.

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