Researchers Looking at Alternatives to Palladium

An anonymous reader writes "Some folks at Stanford have been looking at an alternative architecture for doing trusted computing (ala Palladium) based on using Virtual Machines. They presented a brief paper describing their work a couple weeks ago at the USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems . In their paper they also discuss a bunch of non-DRM applications of Trusted Computing such as distributed firewalls, improving P2P security, preventing DDOS, and even strengthening civil liberty protections."

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Faking out Palladium?

[Asprin]

Moreso, would it be possible to fake out Palladium-dependent software by running it in an emulator that simulates the undelying Palladium subsystem?

What does a program REALLY KNOW about where it lives?

Wow, This is JUST like "The Matrix".

You forgot a BIG part of computer history

[AtariAmarok]

"Computers started out simplistic, under the user's complete control..."

No, they started out controlled by men in white coats in clean rooms.

The microcomputer and PC revolution changed all this.

The regressive trend back to "Master Control" started with Scott McNelly of Sun Microsystems. I remember when he first laid out his grand vision of returning everything to central control via the Internet. Java was part of this. Microsoft copied the rhetoric, announcing a time when your Word app and even your Word docs would all be on Microsoft's central servers.

Re:There's nobody stoping...

[Amazing Quantum Man]

No, I want to talk about the RIAA and MPAA. Specifically the MPAA.

I saw an ad for a DVD that said "Own [some movie] today on DVD". It did not say, "License [some movie]".

Therefore, they are selling me a copy of that movie. By the doctrine of First Sale, it is mine to do with as I wish, including cracking the CSS or region coding, folding, spindling, or mutilating, reselling to someone else.

The only thing that I may not do is reproduce it for other people, since I don't hold the copyright.