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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. You may not have gotten first post by Best+Post · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but you sure got Best Post.

  2. Re: sounds like the soviet russia running gag by bursch-X · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in SOVIET RUSSIA trusted computing TRUSTS YOU!

    I, know this is getting old.

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  3. Re:In Other News... by shepd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry, but the show was only discussing Environmental Tobacco Smoke (Second Hand Smoke).

    However, evidence does suggest that directly smoking cigarettes, while still a known danger, may not be as bad as once thought, as it turns out the overall lifestyle of most smokers greatly contributes to the effects of smoking. This would explain the "My dad smoked for 40 years and could still run a marathon" outlandish claims you hear sometimes. Their healthy lifestyle (excepting the smoking) contributed to their body being able to deal with the one poor factor in their life.

    However, even knowing this, cigarettes are still a leading cause of death among smokers. So don't go ahead and join them just yet!

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