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A Critical Look at Trusted Computing
mod12 writes "After just attending a two-week summer program on the theoretical foundations of security (one of the speakers was from Microsoft research), I have been interested in trying to find out if the "trusted computing" initiative was still alive. I got my answer today in the New York Times from an article that was fortunately rather critical of the concept."
Trusted Computing + Microsoft? AFAIK, trusted computing is NOT running Microsoft software...
Calm down now, even Bill Gates himself was quoted saying that DRM will always be an optional feature. So even if you had a computer with DRM built in, you'd never be forced to actually use it, kind of like having cable TV without the premium channels.
If you think of it in that manner, you'd see that DRM isn't a bad thing. No one will be preventing you from doing in the future what you do freely today, DRM or no DRM. Look AT premium cable TV. Your HBO subscription is a form of DRM, even more clearly so if you subscribe to a "digital" cable service. Now if all you're complaining about is "ridding yourself of that eeeevil DRM," you're just being silly, and have my cordial invitation to suck on a cock.
That is all.
...another point for open source. its free in yet another way!
Perhaps the consumer "flock" will follow MS in digital slavery...but there is little to worry for the savvy open thinkers in this world. There is the free market, where even a niche demand will spawn production of open platforms. Until the corporate oligogarchy bribes our governments into legislating away our digital freedom to run open platforms, we may still do as we please. In the meantime, we need as much fearmongering propaganda as possible to steer the media and contract blinded populace away from the pens and corrals of DRM and Palladium.