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Mowzer · 09-09-02, 06:32 AM

As with pretty much all Palladium stories on the net, the fine points are a bit off.

A good read is from the eff.org... "When Microsoft came to talk to us [eff.org] about Palladium, Seth took some notes and did this write up" http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-07-05.html

With Palladium, one can't ignore the fact it seems more about control of your computer and restriction of fair use than the 'advantages' of virus control or thwarting hackers.

Microsoft's inherent software inadequacies seem to be at the root of the problem.

This post on slash dot sums it up best...

[...it's easy to imagine, in the future, the argument on the senate floor, "Since basically everybody uses Trusted Computers, why not just make untrustworthy computers illegal? they'only empower terrorists/drug dealers/kiddie porners/etc..."
And to most people, it makes total sense then to ban those anonymous, crime-friendly pc's. I suppose the silver lining is, we could at least free ourselves of spammers. So it's a tough call ;-) ]

09-09-02, 06:32 AM	#5
Mowzer ' Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 209	As with pretty much all Palladium stories on the net, the fine points are a bit off. A good read is from the eff.org... "When Microsoft came to talk to us [eff.org] about Palladium, Seth took some notes and did this write up" http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-07-05.html With Palladium, one can't ignore the fact it seems more about control of your computer and restriction of fair use than the 'advantages' of virus control or thwarting hackers. Microsoft's inherent software inadequacies seem to be at the root of the problem. This post on slash dot sums it up best... [...it's easy to imagine, in the future, the argument on the senate floor, "Since basically everybody uses Trusted Computers, why not just make untrustworthy computers illegal? they'only empower terrorists/drug dealers/kiddie porners/etc..." And to most people, it makes total sense then to ban those anonymous, crime-friendly pc's. I suppose the silver lining is, we could at least free ourselves of spammers. So it's a tough call ;-) ]