James Donald writes: > TCPA and Palladium give someone else super root privileges on my > machine, and TAKE THOSE PRIVILEGES AWAY FROM ME. All claims that > they will not do this are not claims that they will not do this, > but are merely claims that the possessor of super root privilege > on my machine is going to be a very very nice guy, unlike my > wickedly piratical and incompetently trojan horse running self.
What would be an example of a privilege that you fear would be taken away from you with TCPA? It will boot any software that you want, and can provide a signed attestation of a hash of what you booted. Are you upset because you can't force the chip to lie about what you booted? Of course they could have designed the chip to allow you to do that, but then the functionality would be useless to everyone; a chip which could be made to lie about its measurements might as well not exist, right?
