Privacy-enhancing uses for TCPA

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Aug 6 15:12:30 PDT 2002


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On 6 Aug 2002 at 16:12, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> If we wish to improve security and privacy, then let us improve
> ssh and GNUPG so that they can actually be installed and used by
> more people.  It is better to think about and to work on our own
> systems than to waste time and money and effort on discovering
> the endless "flaws" and "inadequacies" and "dangers" and the
> endless amusing Panglossian "advantages" of TCPA/Palladium.

Not everyone is equally evil, and even when they are equally evil
not everyone is as immediate a threat.  Roosevelt allied himself
with Stalin, Reagan found himself fighting the same enemy puppet
regime as Pol Pot was fighting.

Hollywood is not TCPA, though there seem to be disturbing
connections, and Palladium is not TCPA either.

Hollywood wants to turn computers users by law into passive
consumers of content generated by large corporations.  Microsoft,
despite all of its sins, has very different and less evil
objectives.

TCPA looks to me suspiciously like a stalking horse for the
hollywood program.  As yet, I do not know what the case is with
Palladium.


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