June 27, 2002 02:16 am, Alastair Scott wrote: <snip> > This - from a well-known academic specialist in security issues - is not > uninteresting, although written with much asseveration (I would like to > see proof of the points about mobile phone batteries and toner > cartridges; such people, in a sense, make their reputation by seeing > the worst in everything): > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
You were correct Alastair. It was considerably _less_ than uninteresting. :-) Thanks for the link. > Coming from a military background (and someone who has no interest in > online video, ebooks, music or all that), I'm less worried than some; > the ideas are not new and a lot, really, should have been done by now. > The general security of PCs is deplorable and software encryption is > not good enough (the 'encrypted' data flies around unencrypted on the > bus, along the monitor cable, to and from the keyboard etc. etc. for at > least part of its existence :) For the military, for corporations, for government, for that matter for anyone that wants the technology fine. I do believe that the case could be made easily that these entities have need for secured hardware, and for secured software. It's so far into overkill for the average consumer that it beggars belief. > The real issue is whether such solutions are applicable to John Q Public > or not, and I think they are overkill. They are _certainly_ applicable > in classified settings! My revulsion for the entire concept isn't for the "solution" itself per se. It's the TCPA; which to my mind is the newest of the new oxymorons. _Trusted?_ *Microsoft?* *Intel?* *The entire entertainment industry and it's public lapdogs such as _Senator Fritz_?* I now need to add AMD to this list? For all that, what corporation/bureaucracy/political body is truly trustworthy *sans* public audit? I won't play. I refuse to waste money and time to support the myth that Microsoft, Hollywood, et al and ad nauseum are granted a natural right to profit by abuse of the consumer. If the next computer that I build myself this fall is the last new computer I ever _own_ then so be it. I did claim, after all, to be a troglodyte. :-) > Alastair -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. -- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings"
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