On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote: < ... />
Right, and you can boot untrusted OS's as well. Recently there was discussion here of HP making a trusted form of Linux that would work with the TCPA hardware. So you will have options in both the closed source and open source worlds to boot trusted OS's, or you can boot untrusted ones, like old versions of Windows. The user will have more choice, not less.
< ... /> Nonsense. Let us remember what Palladium is: Palladium is a system designed to enable a few large corporations and governments to run source secret, indeed, well-encrypted, code on home user's machines in such a way that the home user cannot see, modify, or control the running code. The Orwellian, strictly Animal Farmish, claim runs: "Why it is all just perfectly OK, because anyone can run source secret, well encrypted, code in an uncontrolled manner on anyone's machine at will! We are all equal, it is just that some, that is, We the Englobulators, will in practice get to run source secret, well-encrypted, code on hundreds of millions of users' machines while you, you will never run such code on anybody else's machine except at a hobbyists' fair, precisely to demonstrate we are all equal.". There are other advantages to Palladium: No free kernel will ever freely boot on a Palladium machine. And there is more. If Palladium is instituted: Microsoft will support the most vicious interpretation of the DMCA and press for passage of the SSSCA, in order that the first crack does not prove to the world that Palladium cannot prevent all copyright infringement. Microsoft will be able to say "See, it is these GNU/BSD/XFree/Sendmail/Apache/CLISP folk who are causing all this dreadful copyright infringement. Why owning a non-Palladium machine should be declared, no, not illegal, we are not monsters after all, but probative evidence that the owner is an infringer, and more, a general infringer and a member of the Copyright Infringement Conspiracy. Why some of them even write such code as the well known, and in CIC circles, widely used, tool of infringement called 'cp'. Senator, I know you will be as shocked as I was when I learned what 'cp' stands for. It stands for 'copy'. And I do not mean safe Englobulator-Certified Fair Use Copying, such as is provided by the Triple X Box, which, for a reasonable license fee, allows up to six copy-protected copies to be made before settling of accounts and re-certification of the Box over the net. No, I mean, raw, completely promiscuous copying of any file on the machine, as many times as the infringer wishes. Without record, without payment to the artist, without restraint. Senator, I prefer to call cp 'The Boston Strangler', because that is exactly what it is. And every single non-Palladium operating system in the world comes with cp already loaded, loaded and running.". oo--JS. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com