On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:10:26 +0100, you wrote:

On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 04:51 am, James A. Donald wrote: On 29 Jul 2002 at 15:35, AARG! Anonymous wrote: both Palladium and TCPA deny that they are designed to restrict what applications you run. The TPM FAQ at http://www.trustedcomputing.org/docs/TPM_QA_071802.pdf reads ....

They deny that intent, but physically they have that capability.

And all kitchen knives are murder weapons.

TCPA and Palladium can be forced to restrict 90%+ of all applications at the whim of Bill Gates, or the United States government. Kitchen knives, on the other hand, are under non-uniform and widely-distributed, uncoordinated control. Even Bill Gates and the United States government acting in concert cannot make all knives become murder weapons, nor make all knives become non-murder weapons. ~~