[ale] Please take the time to read - regarding Palladium

[Mike Panetta]

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 07:39, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Heh. A friend of mine sent me the link to this story bright & early this
> am, and I was just about to post it to this list before you beat me to
> it.
> 
> This is of course Very Scary Stuff. It hinges on consumer acceptance of
> Microsoft's and Intel's DRM machinery and software though.  Judging from
> the brouhaha over Intel's last attempt to put unique IDs on its CPU
> chips back in 1999 ( a quick link is at
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990125S0019 ), this is by no
> means a sure thing.

Yes, but post sept 11 people seem to have become weaker in what they
will accept in terms of privacy incursions.  Now  I bet something like
this could be put in with little to no resistance from the general
public, because it will help "fight terrorism" or some such nonsense.


Mike


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