On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Carsten Kuckuk wrote:
Am I right in that this bill would effectively outlaw all free
open-source operating systems like Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc.?
Carsten Kuckuk
Yes.
All interactive digital systems that directly connect to the net will
have to licensed. Most
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
R. A. Hettinga writes:
Everyone remember First Virtual's Nat Borenstein's major discovery of the
keyboard logger?
'Magic Lantern' part of new 'Enhanced Carnivore Project'
[etc]
In the same vein, but a different application, does
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote:
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Right, and you can boot untrusted OS's as well. Recently there was
discussion here of HP making a trusted form of Linux that would work with
the TCPA hardware. So you will have options in both the closed source and
open source worlds to
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote:
Eric Murray writes:
TCPA (when it isn't turned off) WILL restrict the software that you
can run. Software that has an invalid or missing signature won't be
able to access sensitive data[1]. Meaning that unapproved software
won't work.
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, James A. Donald wrote:
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On 2 Aug 2002 at 10:43, Trei, Peter wrote:
Since the position argued involves nothing which would invoke
the malign interest of government powers or corporate legal
departments, it's not that. I can only think of two reasons why
our
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, AARG!Anonymous wrote:
... /
Now for a simple example of what can be done: a distributed poker game.
Of course there are a number of crypto protocols for playing poker on the
net, but they are quite complicated. Even though they've been around
for almost 20 years,
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2129337,00.html
Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial
security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-
bloated tongue twister: next-generation secure computing
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Hermes Remailer wrote:
The following comes from Microsoft's recent mailing of their awkwardly
named Windows Trusted Platform Technologies Information Newsletter
March 2003. Since they've abandoned the Palladium name they are forced
to use this cumbersome title.