Replace the term "Trusted computing" with "Treacherous computing"

professor rat pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Sat May 7 21:51:29 PDT 2022


In 2015, Richard Stallman suggested to replace the term "Trusted computing" with the term "Treacherous computing" due to the danger that the computer can be made to systematically disobey its owner if the cryptographical keys are kept secret from him. He also considers that TPMs available for PCs are not currently dangerous and that there is no reason not to include one in a computer or support it in software due to failed attempts from the industry to use that technology for DRM.

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