Against Trusted Computing Propaganda

[Lazybones]

http://ia300124.us.archive.org/2/items/BenjaminStephanLutzVogel/TrustedComputing_LAFKON_LOW.mov



Nice little video that doesn't seem to be far off the mark..

[Darren Dirt]

http://ia300124.us.archive.org/2/items/BenjaminStephanLutzVogel/TrustedComputing_LAFKON_LOW.mov



Nice little video that doesn't seem to be far off the mark..

Colourful, fun towatch, and stress-inducing. I loved it!





Related info: http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html , and also this article I just read: "Can you trust your computer?" by OSI guru Richard Stallman



"Making sharing impossible is bad enough, but it gets worse. There are plans to use the same facility for email and documents--resulting in email that disappears in two weeks, or documents that can only be read on the computers in one company. Imagine if you get an email from your boss telling you to do something that you think is risky; a month later, when it backfires, you can't use the email to show that the decision was not yours. "Getting it in writing" doesn't protect you when the order is written in disappearing ink. Imagine if you get an email from your boss stating a policy that is illegal or morally outrageous, such as to shred your company's audit documents, or to allow a dangerous threat to your country to move forward unchecked. Today you can send this to a reporter and expose the activity. With treacherous computing, the reporter won't be able to read the document; her computer will refuse to obey her. Treacherous computing becomes a paradise for corruption."





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PS: "We came at this thinking about music, but then we realized that e-mail and documents were far more interesting domains." - Bill Gates, being more ominous than usual: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=25681&DisplayTab=Article





I think I'm going back to pencil and paper