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IBM Trials TCPA Chip Under Linux
keihin writes "From IBM: IBM's Global Security Analysis Lab (GSAL) has done extensive analysis of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) chip available on some IBM systems. We have the chip running under Linux, and have studied it extensively. In order to clarify a lot of misunderstanding about the chip, we are making available some helpful white papers and open source device drivers for Linux, so that interested people can test and use the chip in an open environment."
"We're all fucked."
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Microsoft to Dell: could you please ship our new paladium board in your computers.
Dell to Microsoft: Fuck off if word gets out that you cannot copy stuff on one of our machines we are certainly ruined.
Microsoft to Dell: Do it or else
Dell to Microsoft: Fuck you we are shipping Lindows
Got Code?
Somehow I believe there will always be a demand for open hardware. Even if Microsoft's wet dream of everyone having Palladium embedded in their notebook computer, TV, dish washer, and cerebral cortex comes true, there will always be demand for a piece of hardware that can run code without Bill Gates' say-so.
And where there's Demand, someone will step up to the plate and Supply.
The only risk here is government interference. In America's case, that seems to be a big risk. Look at the V-Chip. Rather than let the open market handle things, it has become law that all American televisions have electronic parental controls built in. I have to pay for that crap because I *might* have a kid one day and I *might* want to keep that kid from watching pr0n.
Hell, maybe if our tax dollars have to go towards enforcing crypto laws, maybe they'll cut funding to the War on Drugs, and if I couldn't use my computer for what I wanted to I could twist up a big doobie and get baked in peace and not give a crap.