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AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS
An anonymous reader writes "American Megatrends announced its 'trusted computing' Palladium BIOS on Jan 6. It seems that the encrypted BIOS' integrity will be verified by a special chip or flash ROM, and will in turn verify the 'authenticity, integrity and privacy' of the boot loader and the operating system. Does that mean such machines may refuse to boot any other non-'trusted' OS? After all, the list of supporting corporations include AMD, Intel, IBM, and HP, of whom we heard quite favourable statements about Linux (just for example -- *BSDs will be equally affected) so far."
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This will go a long way towards the war on Open Source. Consumers won't be able to install and use unauthorized OS's. This could potentially save thousands of dollars.
if your mother had been killed by a terrorist if you would joke about it so casually?
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Forget the whales - save the babies.
Humanism is the religion of the atheist, and one's mind- the product of social programming- the god. The atheist thinks he is superior intellectually and spiritually free, but merely has bowed down before his own ego.
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