UK Government Pushing For 'Trusted Computing'

Posted by timothy on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:33AM from the bland-acceptance dept.

Motor writes "As has long been expected — we are now beginning to see governments pushing for the use of so-called 'trusted computing' — chips installed in all computers that effectively remove control of the PC from its owner. While there may be security advantages to some of the ideas, few can doubt that it represents a fundamental shift in the IT world. A radical move away from an open technology landscape and towards a system that denies all access unless you have the right credentials. Governments will demand the right credentials to access their services — meaning approved software stacks (i.e Windows) with the right digital signatures. Vernor Vinge had it right ."

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There is an intellectual property-security complex by 0xdeadbeef · 2011-10-23 05:04 · Score: 5, Interesting

Actually, no, Richard Stallman had it right long before Vernor Vinge.
DRM has never been about getting paid, it has always been about keeping control. And for all the shit Microsoft got about Palladium, the Apple zealots sure turned a 180 in 2007.
But the zealots are right about one thing - the iPhone is the future of computing. And that future is a boot stamping on a human face, forever.