Who do You Trust with Your Computing?
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| Helios was speaking out against trusted computing (TC) and Digital
| Rights Management (DRM) that is humming softly at the hardware and
| software level inside YOUR computer right now. That's right! Chances
| are, it's already made it on a chip on your and my motherboards...but
| it's there. Soon, if what can happen does happen...we'll all be so
| very unhappy at being told how we can and can't operate our PCs.
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| Some of you may be asking, "what the heck are you talking about?
| They can't tell me how I can use my computer inside my own home".
| Unfortunately, that statement is false. DRM chips are already on a
| majority of motherboards and even built into some processors (viiv
| anyone?). All it takes is a flip of the switch and you'll do what
| Microsoft or any other company that wants to manage your rights
| for you tells you to do whether you like it or not. That is, ofc
| ourse, unless you use Linux :) Linux has always been about
| choice...we choose to compute in ways WE want to...not ways
| that are defined for us.
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http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/176-Who-do-You-Trust-with-Your-Computing.html
Then there's the issue of binding data to an O/S and hardware, which reduces
and restricts choice (e.g. platform migration). It's one of the nastiest
features found in Vista and Office 2007 (maybe Mac OS X as well). WGA is
nothing on par with TC.
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