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Interesting Uses for Trusted Computing
An anonymous reader writes "The Unlimited Freedom blog has published a new article describing 'interesting' uses of Trusted Computing. (Google cache here). Trusted Computing, as implemented in Microsoft's NGSCB (Palladium) or the Trusted Computing Group (TCPA), has been one of the most controversial technology proposals of recent years, to put it mildly. But the article on Unlimited Freedom offers a new perspective. The author examines 12 different applications which could benefit from access to Trusted Computing technology. And most of them are uncontroversial or would actually improve privacy and anonymity. Among the examples listed are multi-player games, online casinos, P2P networks, anonymous remailers, distributed computing and mobile agents. The analysis provides an interesting contrast to the usual focus on Trusted Computing's impact on control over digital content."
Hmmm, it seems that another approach might also provide these desirable side benefits but also work to secure the Internet as a whole, and not have to use "Trusted" architectures. Although, there are new controversies from the following approach, in short, from my journal: "an emerging Internet security company, Symbiot is taking an entirely new, albeit controversial approach to Internet defense and cyberwarfare that should appeal to cyberpunks everywhere. Rather than the traditional passive response that has been used by sysadmins and CTO's worldwide, Symbiot is taking a more "active" defense approach by implementing a common subscription based access to a "threat database" that will allow participating networks to determine the degree of threat and respond democratically (by using the shared resources of other participating networks) and proportionally to the attack by allowing for a graduated response to cyber attacks. The potential of an asymmetrical response to a threat is also not out of the question.... Links for additional information are here and here."
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A nice faq on Trusted Computing.
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Actually the allied powers made extensive use of the Axis research projects after the war. One example was Unit 731, responsible for the research and development of biological weapons through human testing. Not only were the perpetrators not prosecuted for war crimes, Shiro Ishii, the commandant was given a job by the US military! Makes you wonder what that fight for decency was all about really doesn't it?
Further details on Unit 731 can be found here.
My Righteous Leader RMS says DRM is Digital Restrictions Management.
J'aime mieux les méchants que les imbéciles, parce qu'ils se reposent. -- Alexandre Dumas
Exactly, who controls the "trusting" is the difference between the microsoft plan, and what TCPA is ... they are not even tangently related...
People need to get a clue on the MASSIVE differences between TCPA(and ESS), Palladium and DRM -- they are all seperate technologies. TCPA is the follow-on to ESS.
Lucky IBM has posted research to help those who like to scream and yell, but don't like to read...
tcpa rebuttal
More TCPA research
This will make it worse. How does attacking zombified personal computers help anything? It will simply cause disruptions to people who are innocent bystanders. What we need is more secure computer architecture, so people can't get trojans installed on their computers by reading emails in outlook. (Hint, Hint: Microsoft needs to pay.)
Multi-player Games
So, putting in all these "security" features in the consumer's PC is supposed to stop cheating? Far from it. Instead, it does two things:
I'm familiar with the unit. While the military made use of the data, the medical community outside the military has flatly rejected the research. The point stands, after all a doctor in the military doesnt tend to have a lot of choice on what he researches - their called orders.