Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Rosing
On 27 Jun 2002, David Wagner wrote: No, it's not. Read Ross Anderson's article again. Your analysis misses part of the point. Here's an example of a more problematic vision: you can buy Microsoft Office for $500 and be able to view MS Office documents; or you can refrain from buying it

RE: DRMs vs internet privacy (Re: Ross's TCPA paper)

2002-06-27 Thread Lucky Green
Adam Back wrote: I don't mean that you would necessarily have to correlate your viewing habits with your TrueName for DRM systems. Though that is mostly (exclusively?) the case for current deployed (or at least implemented with a view of attempting commercial deployment) copy-mark

RE: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-27 Thread Lucky Green
David wrote: It's not clear that enabling anti-competitive behavior is good for society. After all, there's a reason we have anti-trust law. Ross Anderson's point -- and it seems to me it's one worth considering -- is that, if there are potentially harmful effects that come with the

Two additional TCPA/Palladium plays

2002-06-27 Thread Lucky Green
[Minor plug: I am scheduled to give a talk on TCPA at this year's DEF CON security conference. I promise it will be an interesting talk. http://www.defcon.org ] Below are two more additional TCPA plays that I am in a position to mention: 1) Permanently lock out competitors from your file

Revenge of the WAVEoids: Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design

2002-06-27 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I figured this was probably going on, but the following article is my first confirmation. WAVE, some of you might remember, was started by a former NatSemi Chairman back before the internet got popular. It was going to be a dial-up

RE: Revenge of the WAVEoids: Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design

2002-06-27 Thread Lucky Green
Bob wrote quoting Mark Hachman: The whitepaper can not be considered a roadmap to the design of a Palladium-enabled PC, although it is one practical solution. The whitepaper was written at around the time the Trusted Computing Platform Association (TCPA) was formed in the fall of 2000;

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-27 Thread Marcel Popescu
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As a side note, it seems that a corporation would actually have to demonstrate that I had seen and agreed to the thing and clicked acceptance. Prior to that point, I could reverse engineer, since there is no statement that I cannot reverse engineer agreed to. So

federal bureaucrats growing increasingly unhappy

2002-06-27 Thread Declan McCullagh
2. Job satisfaction down among federal employees By Raya Widenoja Most civil servants have grown less satisfied with their jobs during the past year, particularly since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a new report by the Brookings Institution. The number of federal employees who

Re: Terror Reading

2002-06-27 Thread Harmon Seaver
Ah yes, you're absolutely correct. Larger libraries, especially university libraries, have been online forever. I was thinking of the smaller public libraries, most of which have been getting computerized more recently. On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: Harmon

Re: Two additional TCPA/Palladium plays

2002-06-27 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:10:25PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote: Below are two more additional TCPA plays that I am in a position to mention: 1) Permanently lock out competitors from your file formats. From Steven Levy's article: A more interesting possibility is that Palladium could help

Re: Diffie-Hellman and MITM

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Marcel Popescu wrote: Is there a defense against MITM for Diffie-Hellman? Is there another protocol with equivalent properties, with such a defense? (Secure communications between two parties, with no shared secret and no out-of-band abilities, on an insecure network.)

RE: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Rosing
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Lucky Green wrote: David wrote: It's not clear that enabling anti-competitive behavior is good for society. After all, there's a reason we have anti-trust law. Ross Anderson's point -- and it seems to me it's one worth considering -- is that, if there are

Re: Revenge of the WAVEoids: Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design

2002-06-27 Thread Peter Gutmann
R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WAVE, some of you might remember, was started by a former NatSemi Chairman back before the internet got popular. It was going to be a dial-up book-entry- to-the-screen content control system with special boards and chips patented to down to it's socks.

(Fwd) Nortel secret security part of court records now, gracia

2002-06-27 Thread Iggy River
I looked at the Nevada PUC (PUCN) web site and found that the most recent document on-line that relates to docket #{HYPERLINK dkt_00-6057/00-6057.htm}00-6057 (EDDIE MUNOZ VS CENTRAL TELEPHONE COMPANY-NEVADA DBA SPRINT OF NEVADA, COMPLAINT ALLEGING INCOMING CALLS ARE BEING BLOCKED OR DIVERTED