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No More Internet Anonymity

Posted by samzenpus on from the the-computer-knows dept.

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."

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  1. Jumping On the Treacherous Computing Bandwagon... by RoffleTheWaffle · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Wasn't that the entire point of the Trusted Computing initiative? To give everyone online - or at least every machine - an identity? And is it not true that some of the biggest proponents of this garbage some of the people we should be trusting the least?

    The pathway to Hell is paved with good intentions. Now that it seems that we won't have a choice in the matter, it looks like apparently hardware manufacturers, software vendors, media conglomerates, and politicians know what's better for us than we do. Don't buy into this bullshit.

  2. A quote to ponder, or just read. by Hydryad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Benjamin Franklin

    I do believe that sums up about how I feel about the security side of this issue (Plus, it is in my sig). I really hope that the people in america and other countries wake up and realize that this would be a very bad thing.

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    No sig for you, two weeks!
  3. Re:AMD64 cpu UUID? by The+Spanish+Ninja · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.dsps.net/uuid.html

    Hope this clears it up for you.

    --
    "I like you, but I wouldn't want to see you working with subatomic particles."
  4. Is this a moron convention? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Warning: This post contains some material which, due to its factual nature, may not be suitable for Slashdot.

    Has any one person who has replied to this article, or has even the article author, done ANY research on the TPM? The TPM does the following things, and that is IT:

    - Trusted Boot: Make sure the BIOS, boot loader, and kernel are all the same as when it was setup.
    - PKI functions
    - Key management

    Does "Take over your computer and give all your personal information to Microsoft and The Man" fit into any of those? The TPM is a TOOL. It CAN be used for DRM, by using PKI, but it can also be used for, say, SSH key generation, digital signatures, PGP, encryption, and others.

    Bah, who am I kidding, this is slashdot, every posts without a clue.