Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

[xganon]

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.
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