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Paladdium | by Squishie | 2002-07-24 00:54:08 |
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Do you have to be a Rabid Linux Fan | by Naruki | 2002-07-24 10:13:42 |
| But there are bigger problems... |
by DennisNotOld |
2002-07-24 20:22:30 |
I'm going through the document now, and writing as I read. The first thing that I saw, that filled me with rage and indignation, was this:
"There will be remote censorship: the mechanisms designed to delete pirated music under remote control may be used to delete documents that a court (or a software company) has decided are offensive - this could be anything from pornography to writings that criticise political leaders. Software companies can also make it harder for you to switch to their competitors' products; for example, Word could encrypt all your documents using keys that only Microsoft products have access to; this would mean that you could only read them using Microsoft products, not with any competing word processor."
Whoa! Microsoft will keep me from switching to another word processor, and if I write an article criticizing a political leader a court, or Microsoft, or anyone else who has (or gets) root-like access on Palladium can delete it? This is bad on so many levels. Unconstitutional, unethical, evil and sick... the list goes on and on, I'd say.
Reading about these security features, it occurs to me that the damned governments could just download PGP.
Microsoft is making promises that the chip will stop "just about everything bad in cyberspace"? Yeah, and Outlook is 100% secure...
Rebuttals:
1) According to other documents, if an application is not deemed "secure" by MS, it will not run. Thus, any developer that can't pay the licensing fees will fail. This also gives MS the power to crush competition instantly.
2) I was unclear on that... I've read some things that say that's true and some that say otherwise.
3) Nope. They're sure to work it out so that they can ignore that sort of thing, just like they're working it out so that they can't be called a monopoly due to this.
4) I'm not sure what you're saying. The developer could certainly develop his software, but couldn't run it on Palladium platforms.
5) You're Cthulhu-darned rihgt I am! And how are these claims "groundless"? And how could this not be MS's fault? |
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