I wound not at all be suprised if various devices out there (such as a P III) already have this sort of technology in them.
Given that cpu core designs are highly gaurded secrets, and certain govermental bodies would like to be able to snoop everybody, industry giants may be forced to include such devices in their computer related equipment.
This leads to identification of any user and their activity. It might go hand in hand with stuff like..../something/ enamations (reading the electromagnetic enamation off a computer), and having a machine that can recreate a persons computer in realtime.
Open IP hardware projects are important for a full realization of computer security.
In the current times that we are facing, ie: that of companies making linux for every man and his dog, we end up with a push from the economic sector. If windows 3.11 and 9/x are in danger of losing market space, this supposed blanket of hardware secrecy will be pushed onto whatever platform happens to be popular.
We can either stand our ground, and demand only opensource/GPLed drivers, except nothing less, and continue to advocate GNU/Linux for ideals.
Or we can accept comprimising options, and go for binary only/non GPL drivers.
IMHO, nothing less than free (as in speech). It is nice to see companies acknowlaging the free-unix system, but being based on money, free doesn't have the same meaning as it does for the linux community.
As slashdotters, we have a large influence as to what is acceptable or not.
Come on http://www.blacklist.org/ -- where are you? Its not yet trivial enough to find GFX/other hardware thats 'fully' supported under linux.
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I wound not at all be suprised if various devices out there (such as a P III) already have this sort of technology in them.
/something/ enamations (reading the electromagnetic enamation off a computer), and having a machine that can recreate a persons computer in realtime.
Given that cpu core designs are highly gaurded secrets, and certain govermental bodies would like to be able to snoop everybody, industry giants may be forced to include such devices in their computer related equipment.
This leads to identification of any user and their activity. It might go hand in hand with stuff like....
Open IP hardware projects are important for a full realization of computer security.
Go opencores ! http://www.opencores.org/
In the current times that we are facing, ie: that of companies making linux for every man and his dog, we end up with a push from the economic sector. If windows 3.11 and 9/x are in danger of losing market space, this supposed blanket of hardware secrecy will be pushed onto whatever platform happens to be popular.
We can either stand our ground, and demand only opensource/GPLed drivers, except nothing less, and continue to advocate GNU/Linux for ideals.
Or we can accept comprimising options, and go for binary only/non GPL drivers.
IMHO, nothing less than free (as in speech). It is nice to see companies acknowlaging the free-unix system, but being based on money, free doesn't have the same meaning as it does for the linux community.
As slashdotters, we have a large influence as to what is acceptable or not.
Come on http://www.blacklist.org/ -- where are you? Its not yet trivial enough to find GFX/other hardware thats 'fully' supported under linux.
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"This one particular 'feature' in all the current windows OSes will put another bucketload of cash in my pocket. Ooh Im so clever!"
W.Gates
I wonder if a global class action is out of the question.