-- On 7 Jul 2002 at 0:42, Gary Jeffers wrote:
I suspect the the US solution would be hardware. All new hardware would be maliced and old hardware would become obsolete.
The plan, as envisaged by our enemies, is that first almost everyone will voluntarily run a "trusted" operating system in order to view copyrighted entertainment. The major capability of the new hardware will be to advertise to servers that trusted software is in control. Then new hardware that is willing to run an "untrusted" operating system will be banned. After all, only pirates, drug trafficers, money launderers, and child pornographers are running untrusted software. Then only properly degreed people will be authorized to work on untrusted operating systems and hardware campable of running them. The qualifications for being properly degreed, like the qualifications for medicine, will become increasing related to control and less related to competence. Unauthorized possession of untrusted hardware will become subject to increasingly severe sanctions, and net access will only be possible through a gateway and proxies running trusted sofware. Of course the flaw in this is step one -- almost everyone runs a "trusted" operating system. When step one does not seem to be happening, it will be announced to be largely complete, and then step two will be launched prematurely, and so will encounter considerable hostility.. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG c6oGyTOTR4sjs5j10gZI6c8osgJ1nsUjWBiuVfcv 2tuCE2J8F56JYFA6IB8E7zAWovOi9DOy+tkuBnRCm