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Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium
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."
the fault is....it was made by microsoft
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Diffie and Rivest had better watch out! Microsoft could easily hit them with DMCA violation charges for questioning Palladium's encryption!
Yeah, I'll be getting a computer with Palladium WinHEC freezes over!
News Flash: "Blue screen of death kills computer and user, details at 9" - Kent Brockman
How fitting.
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Palladium simply brings this 'innovation' (in the grand tradition of Microsoft 'innovation') to the U.S.
Great.
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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yes... and we don't even have an option to do it somewhere else thanks to the United States of the World.. wait, you're telling me there is something behind all that water????
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Computers have been turned against thier owners for quite some time now.
Why do you think all the latest M$ software from Bill says 'My Computer' ?
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
In other news:
(hint: $ man 7 signal)
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Neither can Microsoft
" Do you really think MS is dumb enough to chose a key length that has any chance of being broken anytime soon? "
Do you really want me to answer that ?
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
Some guys with no credibility to lose, think they know better than the experienced and widely-known software professionals and security experts that created the world's most popular OS? Microsoft are the experts who came up with the idea of the world's most popular web browser, MSIE, which is so powerful that it can run a program on a web page, and is capable of secure internet connections to web sites! They make a very popular email client, and very, very powerful spreadsheet and word processor apps. They make a web server of which nearly thirty percent were completely protected from a rampaging worm a couple years ago -- think about how many thousands of computers withstood that malicious attack, and what might have happened to them if Microsoft hadn't been there with their valuable security patches.
That two nearly-anonymous net.dweebs nobody has ever heard of, would arrogantly say they know more than Gates, Balmer, and their crack team, is just preposterous.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
You'll still be able to install linux on your PC. You just need to by a copy of that 007 game, modify your saved game file, flash your eprom, and you're go!
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Do you really think MS is dumb enough to chose a key length that has any chance of being broken anytime soon?
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enough said :-)
Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM