[ale] [Fwd: [Am-info] Advanced Micro Devices will include Microsoft'sPalladium]

[Dow Hurst]

I am sure someone in the hacker community will find a huge hole in the 
scheme that renders it useless anyway.  I am not going to lose sleep 
over it.  It sound terrible but so have so many other things.  We are 
just seeing the backlash from corporate business trying to hold on to 
market share and such.  I have a lot of faith in the Linux/Unix hacker 
community after watching the challenges being overcome in the past few 
years.  I do plan to voice my opinion to whoever I can about the dangers 
of the Palladium scheme.  I noticed an article about some fancy CD 
encryption now on millions of music CDs that supposedly keeps it from 
being copied.  Some special coding around the outside  or inside edge of 
the CD.  Well, someone found out that you could just use a permanent 
magic marker to black out the encoding and render the scheme useless. 
 This was in CPU magazine, which was a cool magazine too!  They compared 
the $1.49 marker cost to subvert the encryption to the million dollar 
development and implementation cost of bringing the scheme to market. ;-)
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

> This does not sound good..
>
> Advanced Micro Devices will include Microsoft's Palladium "trusted" --
> meaning Microsoft-  approved software only -- support in its next
> generation of chips, according to published reports.
>
> http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=232
>
>

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