AARG!Anonymous writes:
I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal for achieving the following technical goal:
Allow computers separated on the internet to cooperate and share data and computations such that no one can get access to the data outside the limitations and rules imposed by the applications.
Can't be done. I don't have time to go into ALL the reasons. Fortunately for me, any one reason is sufficient. #1: it's all about the economics. You have failed to specify that the cost of breaking into the data has to exceed the value of the data. But even if you did that, you'd have to assume that the data was never worth more than that to *anyone*. As soon as it was worth that, they could break into the data, and data is, after all, just data. Ignore economics at your peril. -- -russ nelson http://russnelson.com | Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | businesses persuade 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | governments coerce Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX |