Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

sasKuach sasKuach at highstream.net
Tue Sep 17 11:40:39 EDT 2002


9/16/2002 7:47:27 PM, AARG!Anonymous <remailer at aarg.net> wrote:

>Running an open-source program on a trusted computing platform provides
>the best of both worlds.  The user is protected against misbehavior
>on the part of the executable, because he knows exactly what it can do.
>And the software is protected against misbehavior on the part of the user,
>by virtue of the hardware protection.  In this way, the interests of all
>parties are balanced.

And what exactly is misbehavior on the part of the user? The user owns the
computer and should be able to do whatever he so disires with it.


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See why TCPA and Palladium
are only good for Microsoft
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html



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