Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such a threat of a mandated Trusted Computing technology, how bad is it for the system

RE: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

John Gilmore[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: Nomen writes: How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such a threat

Re: RIAA turns against Hollings bill

Nomen said: How does this latest development change the picture? If there is no Hollings bill, does this mean that Trusted Computing will be voluntary, as its proponents have always claimed? And if we no longer have such a threat of a mandated Trusted Computing technology, how bad is it for

What, me worry?

I'm not worried about DRM. Though I do not at all like the idea of having someone else 0wn my machine, especially someone like Microsoft, I have faith that the first several versions will be relatively easily defeated by wily hacker types. After that, armed with a machine with DRM but that I

Counterpane Internet Security Secures $20 Million In Series DFunding

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Net security firm Counterpane pulls in $20M

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Re: What, me worry?

It's a reality check. Despite a massive amount of work to make computer networks secure, remote attacks are often successful (for many reasons of course, including non-technical ones like poorly chosen passwords, but technical ones as well), and now we're talking about securing something the

Even 'Sanitized' Hard Drives Can Hold Sensitive Information

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