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Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium

Posted by timothy on from the artist-formerly-known-as-palladium-that-is dept.

FrzrBrn writes "Whitfield Diffie and Ronald Rivest raised concerns about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (formerly Palladium) at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. They are (naturally) concerned about vendor lock-in and having computers turned against their owners. See the story at EE Times."

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  1. I'm not getting palladium - ever. by Nogami_Saeko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'll buy a MAC first, before I buy any hardware or software which incorporates palladium.

    And for me, that's saying a lot.

    N.

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    "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
  2. Their solution... by t0ny · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    FrzrBrn writes "Whitfield Diffie and Ronald Rivest raised concerns about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (formerly Palladium) at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. They are (naturally) concerned about vendor lock-in and having computers turned against their owners. See the story at EE Times."

    "Our solution is to do nothing. We prefer to just complain about anything that MS will do."

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    Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.

  3. We do have guns by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    But we tend to use them for hunting, not for shooting children in schools.