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Windows Security GM Talks NGSCB (Palladium)

Posted by timothy on from the neckbone-connected-to-ankle-bone dept.

An article at IT Manager's Journal (along with Slashdot, part of OSDN) reports on John Manferdelli's recent talk at Stanford on what Microsoft is calling for now its "Next Generation Secure Computing Base," or NGSCB (formerly Palladium). Manferdelli is the general manager for Windows security at Microsoft, and his presentation was mostly about the technical, not ethical or other considerations involved in this system. His position is understandably different from those of privacy and free software advocates who assert that Microsoft's elaborate security is designed to lock users into Microsoft software at the expense of privacy and choice.

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  1. Link to article by Chalybeous · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link above appears to be to /.
    Here is the article on the IT Manager's Journal site.

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  2. Re:What it's about: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fixed link to the article - is here

  3. At least some people do understand what's at stake by MikShapi · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't understand what "Trusted" Computing, DRM, NGSCB and friends are all about, but do want to be awakened to reality - here's a red pill.

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  4. Re:Glimpse of the future by Chalybeous · · Score: 4, Informative
    SF author Cory Doctorow made a similar point in a story /. posted some considerable time ago - it's called 0wnz0red .
    Doctorow's story calls it "Honorable Computing", and perhaps stretches the capabilities a little further (writer's hyperbole?), but in essence what he's talking about is DRM and piracy:
    "Got it: so if the OS and the CPU and so on are all 'Honorable'" -- Liam described quote-marks with his index fingers -- "then you can be sure that the execution environment is what the software expects it to be, that it's not a brain in a vat. Hollywood movies are safe from Napsterization."
    Not 100% on-topic, to be sure, but I like Doctorow's story a hell of a lot better than Microsoft's. Go read it, and see where the future might be headed!
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  5. Re:What it's about: by dspeyer · · Score: 5, Informative
    You left out:
    Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Stallman.

    Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted without royalty in any medium provided this notice is preserved.

    When you're copying an entire essay, is it really too much to include a few lines at the end, so that people know who wrote it and what they're allowed to do with it? It's not like you have to copy-type it, we have copy-and-paste working reliably now? :-)

    Incidentally, the original article included a few footnotes, and is available on GNU's site.

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