Re: Computer health certificate plan: Charney of DoJ/MS

[Marshall Clow]

At 3:16 AM -0700 10/7/10, John Gilmore wrote:

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11483008

BBC reports that Microsoft's idea seems to be that if your computer
doesn't present a valid health certificate to your ISP, then your
ISP wouldn't let it be on the net, or would throttle it down to a tiny
bandwidth.  The Health Certificate would, of course, be provided by
Intel and Microsoft, but only from machines with Treacherous Computing
hardware, after examining everything in your computer to make sure
Intel and Microsoft approve of it all.


I think that this will crash and burn because by the time that 
they're ready to implement this, PCs will be a minority of devices 
connected via IP.


My cable box talks TCP/IP. So does my Tivo. And my SqueezeBox. And my 
SlingBox.  And my router. And most modern televisions.


Many people would be annoyed, to say the least, if they couldn't 
watch movies on their NetFlix-enabled TV - which they bought before 
this cockamamie idea was proposed.

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Re: Printers betray document secrets

[Marshall Clow]

At 10:44 PM -0700 10/20/04, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 05:23 PM 10/18/2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/technology/3753886.stm
It's not clear that they work at all with inkjet printers,
and changing ink cartridges is even more common than
changing laser printer cartridges.  If you're sloppy,
you've probably got a bunch of partly-used cartridges around,
so even if you want to print out a bunch of ransom notes
or whatever, you don't even have to go to Kinko's
to get them to be different.
If you're really concerned about this, buy a cheap inkjet,
use it for your purposes, then destroy it.
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