On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 03:17:22PM -0400, Sunder wrote: | Indeed. | | If it's coming from Redmond, and as usual if it smells of evil, there is | an utterly simple solution in dealing with it: don't buy it. Don't buy | Microsoft software, don't buy motherboards that include TCPA capabilities. | When you're up for getting yourself a new PC, get a generic one without | such options, or if you insist, call the vendor and tell them you want a | box without evil-inside and without a Redmond OS pre-installed. Which CPU vendor will sell me a CPU without TCPA? And besides, I WANT a TCPA machine. I just don't want remote attestation, or keys that I can't back-up and relocate. | Buy a generic intel/amd machine without the "Secure" processor, or give | Steve Jobs some of your cash for a nice G4/G5 machine, or you can go to a IBM is starting to add TCPA to the powerpc line. And much as I enjoy my Mac, the DVD player still has this bug where fast-forward doesn't work sometimes. Really annoying when you need to yank a DVD for cleaning, and watch the previews 3 or 4 times. http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsletter/mar2003/ppc_process_a... Sparc may be an option if Sun stays in business, but again, I want a TCPA chip that I can control. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume