Trusted Computing And You

sebFlyte writes "There's an interesting look at the Trusted computing initiative running over on ZDNet UK, written by security guru Bruce Schneier. He looks at the suggestions for best practice made in a recent policy document, and Microsoft's 'Machiavellian manoeuvring' to stall said document. He posits their moves are to avoid having to enforce such best-practice when it comes to Vista's DRM and other copy-restriction technology." From the article: "This sounds great, but it's a double-edged sword. The same system that prevents worms and viruses from running on your computer might also stop you from using any legitimate software that your hardware or operating system vendor simply doesn't like. The same system that protects spyware from accessing your data files might also stop you from copying audio and video files. The same system that ensures that all the patches you download are legitimate might also prevent you from, well, doing pretty much anything."

Comments

Zonk Does it Again

[putko]

The people over here really have it in for Zonk and his dupes.

I didn't really get the role of editors in making these mistakes. The jihad folks figure Zonk is one of the worst offenders.

I'm agnostic in all this, of course. This is just for informational purposes.

Re:Browse this discussion at -1

[saintp]

It's absolutely amazing how quickly all of the posts pointing out that this story is a dupe get modded down. Mindblowing that people would be wasting their mod points on a story so few people will read anyway.

Unless, of course, someone out there had unlimited mod points and was just trying to mod any censorship into the ground. But that could never happen, not at Slashdot.