One more reason for me to buy a legacy IBM chip Mac. sigh
--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > " > The End of the Internet? -- (The Nation -- February > 1, 2006) > http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester > The nation's largest telephone and cable companies > are crafting an > alarming set of strategies that would transform the > free, open and > nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately > run and branded > service that would charge a fee for virtually > everything we do online. > Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other > communications giants are > developing strategies that would track and store > information on our > every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection > and marketing > system, the scope of which could rival the National > Security Agency > " > > ---- > Dr. Brin, the conspiracy is much broader than this. > Intel, AMD, > Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Etc. are all on board. It's > called TCPA / > Palladium AKA next-generation-secure-computing-base > (NGSCB) AKA > Bitlocker. > > (It's also why apple suddenly switched to intel). > > With a so called 'trusted-computing-platform-module' > (TCPM) being built > into the CPU of all new computers, remote > attestation can be enforced > by the ISP's universally. The right to access or > read the internet is > being killed. > > See: > <<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html>> > > This means nothing unless TCPA / Palladium is > stopped somehow: > <<http://civic.moveon.org/mediaaction/alerts/Stop_AOL_email_scheme.html> > > > > and > > <<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html>> > > <<http://www.stallman.org/harry-potter.html>>: > > Making Canada respect human rights will be hard, but > a good first step > is to identify the officials and legislators who do > not support them. > The article quotes a lawyer as saying, "There is no > human right to > read." Any official, judge, or legislator who is not > outraged by this > position does not deserve to be in office. > > RFID chipped Books: > <<http://www.stallman.org/sinister-publisher.html>> > ----- > > "How noble libertarianism, in its majestic equality, > that both rich and > poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the > privately owned streets > (without paying), sleeping under the privately owned > bridges (without > paying), and coercing bread from its rightful > owners!" > --Anatole France > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
