__/ [ [H]omer ] on Saturday 12 August 2006 18:23 \__
> http://slated.org/windows_security_a_question_of_trust
>
> 'The latest weapon being promoted and developed (primarily by
> Microsoft), to tackle software "security" in general, is (what is
> currently being denoted as) NGSCB. This technology has many
> pseudonyms, (perhaps as a means of obfuscating something deeply
> unpopular), which includes TC, TCG, LaGrande, Palladium and TCPA, but
> it all amounts to the same thing; shifting the balance of control of a
> computer system *away* from the user and *towards* the software
> vendor.'
>
> ...
>
> 'The question is; do you trust Microsoft (or other TCG members) to
> *not* exploit you, the user? Trust cannot be *forced*, it must be
> earned, and right now the only way Microsoft can earn the trust of its
> users would be to open up its sources for peer review - something that
> is almost guaranteed to never happen, due to the commercial licensing
> nature of Microsoft's products.
>
> Microsoft expects (indeed *demands*) that *we* trust *them*, but with
> initiatives like WGA and NGSCB they demonstrate that they patently do
> *not* trust *us*. How can there ever be anything but an air of
> distrust between Microsoft and ... well pretty much everyone else,
> under such circumstances?'
>
> Apologies for boosting my own blog.
I had seen it among the feeds even before I saw it promoted in COLA. I also
read it prior to that and was going to submit it to Digg. But you beat me to
it. Submitted to netscape.com though.
...And hours before I read yours, I happened to write my own opinion/take on
this...
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/08/13/windows-us-government/
FWIW.
Attempts to add perspective of time made the sentences quite clumsy...
Best wishes,
Roy
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