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No More Internet Anonymity
inkhaton writes "This Article tells of an Orwellian chip that, once installed in your computer (and not by your choice), will allow any website you visit to "read" your identity. The article goes on to describe how many benefits there are for using this to facilitate online business and even suggests some negative points. It ends with "Ultimately the TPM itself isn't inherently evil or good. It will depend entirely on how it's used, and in that sphere, market and political forces will be more important than technology." ... ugh. Well we all know what that means."
But good to see the mainstream press catching up to it. This chip is part of a larger effort by major software developers and hardware manufacturers to mostly stop piracy in all forms and control what you can do with your computer and when.
Read the TCPA FAQ, and take a look at Against TCPA, an anti-TCPA site if you're interested. For an alternate perspective, you can also view the official Trusted Computing Group site.
Personally, I hate it, I don't think it will succeed, and I will *never* buy a computer with such a module installed.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
no i think he was more going for e-lit short for e-literate, which is basically like another way to say skript kiddie.
these kids these days they're all e-literate and don't know how to hard code a crack in asm after having reverse engineered all traces of the hooks and calls from a compiled binary full of traps to make reverse engineering more difficult.
microsoft has made it far too easy, back in the day if you wanted to steal someone's data, you had to lug a 20lbs reel to reel magnetic tape, p[ull it over to a duplicatrion mainfraim and copy the contents onto anothe blank 20lbs reel to reel magnetic tape AND it Still only held 20 Megabytes AND WE LOVED IT.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html