Microsoft has found a technique for shifting its "monopoly on the marketplace" wedge (snarf) even deeper. Forget the backhanded OEM deals (bollocks), now the 'wedge' is between your CPU and the dedicated PKI co-processor that hashes your apps, your data, and your hardware. And they found a nifty way for the MPAA/RIAA to fund it....DRM
Alas, even if Palladium never happens, its all in the marketing.
This is an honest appraisal. And Reuters isn't some industry rag. So it lacks the editorial slant which begs the question concerning Microsoft's et al. plans on the "Big Picture" DRM at the hardware level would change the playing field. Depending on the political/industrial 'leverage' the TCPA can muster, this is way bad for Open Source, GNU license.....
Why, you ask????
Because Palladium 'requires' software developers to certify (as in register) their binaries on Palladium hardware.
For real, who has seen/done this? The opportunities for creative mayhem seem mindboggling. Start on Saturday morn, open ur wholesale catalog and take a walk to the neighborhood hardware store....Monday coming around like the wheel has just been re-invented.
Have yall seen or heard or read (i.e. Wired this month- sorry) Duwayne Hendrickson. This mad cat is a former ham radio geek who now sits on the FCC advisory board concerning wireless spectrum/FCC part 15 issues. And he is WLANning major Indian reservations and foreign countries; using every trick in his bag. My ignorance notwithstanding, does he care about WEP? Wasn't mentioned in the article.
My contention is this: Keep WEP as messy as swiss cheese. Let everyone have it right on Main St! More access is good access. Individuals with savvy will guard their own cookie jars.
Keep encryption development as open as it can be, rely on the 'market' to force the security issue. The NSA can probably break it anyway. That's why its released for consumers.
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Is the price of popcorn kernels skyrocketing? All I can think about is filling my Prof.'s bunglalow with seed and well...
Never mind. I watch too much cable TV and I love my country but fear my government.
FBICIAESCHELONCARNIVOREDRUGSCARTELMEDELLINOSAMAAFG HANISTANKILLKILLKILL
Your post is insightful and may spell employment suicide. In my experience, ( I have interviewed everywhere from 'consultant' partime work to employment for State senators.) I consistently behave with tact and candor. I am honest and do not stick to BTB answers. In every interview where I 'connected' with the interviewer, I got the job. Here is my conclusion: If your interviewer dictates a superficial interview, then give them superficiality.
(Preface: this article is not about mp3. - Ed.) Carnivore may or may not be a infringement upon our entitlement to privacy. The issue here concerns the implementation, and possible abuse, of the system. Furhermore, IMHO there is an implicit issue of trust in federal government. 'How far are they going to go?' Remember, The FBI exists outside the realm of checks and balances; not that a federated republic can sustain such effectively.... I am cynical. The only reason the populace is hearing about this now, IMNSHO, is on account that the technologies handling Carnivore are already more than ten years old. The Fed is letting us know, isn't it?
any takers? There is a flash from the past or is that.gov |.mil/fbi/cia/echelon meta-analyzing my psychographic tendecies. Does the real Echelon have a domain. Mindwatch should link to it. My first system was the Apple//c with 13 inch composite moniter (thats 65000 colors in 1985) for BASIC. I plugged it into an rf switch so I could play nintendo on it too. I was ten years old. I rocked! P.S. whatever happened to the drudge report. too bad.
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Microsoft has found a technique for shifting its
"monopoly on the marketplace" wedge (snarf) even deeper. Forget the backhanded OEM deals (bollocks), now the 'wedge' is between your CPU and the dedicated PKI co-processor that hashes your apps, your data, and your hardware. And they found a nifty way for the MPAA/RIAA to fund it....DRM
Alas, even if Palladium never happens, its all in the marketing.
This is an honest appraisal. And Reuters isn't some industry rag. So it lacks the editorial slant which begs the question concerning Microsoft's et al. plans on the "Big Picture" DRM at the hardware level would change the playing field. Depending on the political/industrial 'leverage' the TCPA can muster, this is way bad for Open Source, GNU license.....
Why, you ask????
Because Palladium 'requires' software developers to certify (as in register) their binaries on Palladium hardware.
Welcome to the Brave New World, prole.
For real, who has seen/done this? The opportunities for creative mayhem seem mindboggling. Start on Saturday morn, open ur wholesale catalog and take a walk to the neighborhood hardware store....Monday coming around like the wheel has just been re-invented.
This rox, liono.
Have yall seen or heard or read (i.e. Wired this month- sorry) Duwayne Hendrickson. This mad cat is a former ham radio geek who now sits on the FCC advisory board concerning wireless spectrum/FCC part 15 issues. And he is WLANning major Indian reservations and foreign countries; using every trick in his bag. My ignorance notwithstanding, does he care about WEP? Wasn't mentioned in the article.
My contention is this: Keep WEP as messy as swiss cheese. Let everyone have it right on Main St! More access is good access. Individuals with savvy will guard their own cookie jars.
Keep encryption development as open as it can be, rely on the 'market' to force the security issue. The NSA can probably break it anyway. That's why its released for consumers.
snarf liono.
Is the price of popcorn kernels skyrocketing? All I can think about is filling my Prof.'s bunglalow with seed and well...
G HANISTANKILLKILLKILL
Never mind. I watch too much cable TV and I love my country but fear my government.
FBICIAESCHELONCARNIVOREDRUGSCARTELMEDELLINOSAMAAF
Your post is insightful and may spell employment suicide. In my experience, ( I have interviewed everywhere from 'consultant' partime work to employment for State senators.) I consistently behave with tact and candor. I am honest and do not stick to BTB answers. In every interview where I 'connected' with the interviewer, I got the job. Here is my conclusion: If your interviewer dictates a superficial interview, then give them superficiality.
(Preface: this article is not about mp3. - Ed.) Carnivore may or may not be a infringement upon our entitlement to privacy. The issue here concerns the implementation, and possible abuse, of the system. Furhermore, IMHO there is an implicit issue of trust in federal government. 'How far are they going to go?' Remember, The FBI exists outside the realm of checks and balances; not that a federated republic can sustain such effectively.... I am cynical. The only reason the populace is hearing about this now, IMNSHO, is on account that the technologies handling Carnivore are already more than ten years old.
The Fed is letting us know, isn't it?
any takers? There is a flash from the past or is that .gov | .mil /fbi /cia /echelon meta-analyzing my psychographic tendecies. Does the real Echelon have a domain. Mindwatch should link to it. My first system was the Apple //c with 13 inch composite moniter (thats 65000 colors in 1985) for BASIC. I plugged it into an rf switch so I could play nintendo on it too. I was ten years old. I rocked! P.S. whatever happened to the drudge report. too bad.
"No such thing as a free-lunch." - Everyone's Irish Dad.