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Trusted Computing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

derrickoswald writes "John Walker, one of the founders of Autodesk, has posted The Digital Imprimatur, a monograph on technologies such as the Trusted Computing initiative. Some of the prognostications and conclusions reached may not be palatable to Slashdot readers."

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  1. Whee. More NAT bashing... by Bookwyrm · · Score: 1, Troll

    Another tired complaint about how NAT is a terrible evil because it breaks badly designed applications.

    At one point in history, there were telephone switches that were these big mechanical things that actually made physical links between the wires of the end points.

    People could make a call between two phones, then run a fractional T1 over them. Awesome! End to end connectivity! High speed data! No pesky analog-to-digital converter, no wire-to-fiber convert, and all that nonsense. Just raw connectivity.

    Perhaps we should go back to the era of mechanical switches, then, as well as getting rid of NAT.

    Or maybe people can work on separating their application layers from the network layers properly.