[ale] OT: Trusted Computing

[da Black Baron]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:34, da Black Baron wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 12:48, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
> > 
> > As I read this faq, personal property rights issues came to
> > mind. Do you actually own what you have paid for? You would
> > think the answer is yes, but these guys seem to think that
> > they have control over your personal property.
> > 
> > Anyway, had to rant.
> 
> A few nice little worms to fry their TC databases would put an end to
> all that crap.  
> 
> Like, how willing would a law firm be to keep their records in a format
> that becomes valueless once the master key is fried?

Plus, couldn't you just put a packet-sniffer in a router between the
source and your "tc" machine to catch the decryption key and everything
else?



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