Hi, On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:47:59AM +0100, yossarian wrote: >> Would you buy/use it if you had the choice? I mean, there are a lot of >> advantages... :-)
> Now you've got me interested - what advantages is TCPA offering me? We're currently talking about the (hypothetical) features of the hardware in my questionnaire -- i.e. CPUs that support a "web of trust" or at least require a signature from the computer's owner or a trusted third party (designated by the owner). I.e. not TCPA, but what TCPA should be, and could be if someone pushed hard enough in that direction, since it does what the TCPA is all about -- copy protection and trusted executables -- however it creates a free market in which customers can decide what to buy. > What > features will my new computer have, that will convince me to lose certain > options I have right now - playing music, copying what I like, etc?. I'd say protection from binary viruses and stack overflows, plus if someone breaks into your computer and you have stored your key in a safe place you can tell what she modified. So this would be a definitve must if you're builing a server, and I'm asking now whether you would like those features on your home box as well, even if you had to give up DVD copying or get special illegal hardware for it. Basically I'm on your side -- but I fear that if noone speaks up and points out a better alternative, we will be stuck with TCPA as it currently is, and lose the options we currently have anyway (since we cannot decrypt stuff from the Internet or from DVDs on our hardware). So I'm searching for a better alternative. I'm ignoring all the copy protection stuff since it will be broken withing a few moths anyway, and just concentrate on the stuff M$ invented against the OSS people. > It > should so very good it will convince me to actually trow away my old > computers that can do all this evil things. I could still use them and just > buy a new one for all the new goodies, hwatever they might be? Your old computers cannot do evil things -- they cannot access media created since the TCPA rollout. > support - do you think that peripheral makers are going to stop supporting > non-TCPA operating systems? They might, but it will mean they'll also loose > customers. Most of them will need to start supporting other OSes first. Also, as a hardware vendor, you may not support non-TCPA OSes, except if you take care that no unencrypted data leaves the sandbox (which makes the hardware pretty unusable). Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4
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