On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:10:26 +0100, you wrote: > > On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 04:51 am, James A. Donald wrote: > On 29 Jul 2002 at 15:35, AARG! Anonymous wrote: > both Palladium and TCPA deny that they are designed to restrict > what applications you run. The TPM FAQ at > http://www.trustedcomputing.org/docs/TPM_QA_071802.pdf reads > .... > > They deny that intent, but physically they have that capability. > > And all kitchen knives are murder weapons.
TCPA and Palladium can be forced to restrict 90%+ of all applications at the whim of Bill Gates, or the United States government. Kitchen knives, on the other hand, are under non-uniform and widely-distributed, uncoordinated control. Even Bill Gates and the United States government acting in concert cannot make all knives become murder weapons, nor make all knives become non-murder weapons. ~~
