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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. DIGEST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    • [Insert 100 comments from people who did not read the article, just kind of talking about Palladium and their views on it becuase this is a Palladium article so it will seem ontopic]
    • [Insert indeterminate amount of crapflooding which either goes down to -1 or goes down to 0 but is skimmed past unnoticed by everyone]
    • [Insert 60 comments from people who read the article, but then simply used the article as a springboard to talk about already-worn arguments related to Palladium, I.E. responding to some specific element of the article but responding such as to simply bring up the same already-discussed-on-slashdot points covered by the first 100 comments.]
    • [Insert 100 posts responding to the previous notable 160 posts which simply give the same counterarguments that were used the last time the points from those 160 points were used on slashdot-- in the last slashdot palladium article.]
    • [Insert 20 posts explaining that misconceptions in previous 260 posts are misconceptions]
    • [Insert 30 posts that miss the point entirely]
    • [Insert 23 posts that respond to something someone said in a generally non-insightful but fairly humorous manner, which are then moderated as "funny"]
    • [Insert 2 posts by people who actually read the article and want to discuss the article, and/or what new points or fresh perspective the article offers]
    • [Insert 6 posts responding to the previous 2]
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  2. Will you lick them with a mare? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or will you lick them with a pear?

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

    but you sure got Best Post.

  4. 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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  5. 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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