Re: Can "trusted Computing" be trusted?

From: andy smart (anonymus_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/09/05 

Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:32:55 +0100

Imhotep wrote:

> ...and even better idea. Why do you not do some research and find out who
> "them" and "they" are for yourself...instead of trying to make this out
> into a OS thing. How lame.
>
> -Im

I'm not turning this into an OS thing at all - all operating systems are
insecure and flawed as is all hardware and all door locks.

I don't need to know who 'them and they' are, because I don't believe in
'them and they' - I know that various companies are developing what they
term trusted computing and are pushing for it because it's their
product. What I don't believe in are these mythical 'them and they' who
are supposedly out to take away our freedoms at ever turn by exerting
some strange power over the rest of the world. I just don't believe that
this is anything new - global captialism has always attempted to find
new ways to sell it's produce and the trusted computing initiative is
only a new way to do this; who knows it might just have more benefits
than losses in the end and people will prefer the reduction in what they
can do to gain some increase in security. I don't like being filmed
everwhere by CCTV cameras, but unless we can have lots more police I
prefer that to street crime.

Interestingly enough the original Imhotep was involved in the support
system for one of the most represive regimes in world history :-)

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