Isn't that what the TPM was about? Didn't we all recognize that as a way to make sure OSS couldn't run on hardware without paying MS or someone in the ecosystem for signing the binary?
> -----Original Message----- > From: rick wesson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 8:37 PM > To: Tomas L. Byrnes > Cc: Paul Ferguson; funsec > Subject: Re: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses' > > If you want to subvert the "internet drivers license" meme, insist that > it is applications and hardware that should have the drivers license. > > Inform that its not a people problem, but and identity problems around > applications and hardware. > > Use the "drivers license" meme as it has momentum, just divert it from > people to software. > > -rick > > > Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > > Well, the alternative would be for Craig and his company to pay some > > attention to the quality of their software, but that would cost some > > serious money. > > > > So, much more useful for them to divert attention from the genesis of > > the whole problem: their OS; and let governments clean it up, all > while, > > naturally, making the barrier to entry for competitors to his company > > much higher. > > > > As long as you understand that the senior execs of US Publicly traded > > companies parse Milton Friedman's famous dictum to suit their > personal > > (lack of) morality: > > > > The full dictum is (their referring to the shareholders): "That > > responsi-bility is to conduct the business in accordance with their > > desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible > while > > con-forming to the basic rules of the society, both those embodied in > > law and those embodied in ethical custom." Milton Friedman, New York > > Times Magazine, September 13, 1970 > > > > http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/friedman- > soc-r > > esp-business.html > > > > Generally, they paraphrase that to be "maximize shareholder value", > > sometimes "within the limits of the Law", by which they tend to mean > > whatever you can get away with for a cost of lawsuit that is less > than > > the cost of doing the right thing. > > > > You will note that Friedman had a much broader view: that they > conform > > to the basic rules of society " both those embodied in law and those > > embodied in ethical custom." > > > > However, you will find precious few captains of industry of the last > 30 > > years operate on a principle more elevated than: "You'll be gone, > I'll > > be gone, I got mine". > > > > Craig Mundie is just an apologist for his Uncle Fester lookalike > boss: > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/13/ballmer_is_fester_and_we/ > > > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [email protected] [mailto:funsec- > [email protected]] > >> On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson > >> Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 4:50 PM > >> To: funsec > >> Subject: [funsec] Here We Go Again: Internet 'Drivers Licenses' > >> > > The meme that seemingly will not die -- Craig Mundie, chief research > > and > > strategy officer for Microsoft, mentions it again: > > > > http://rawstory.com/2010/01/agency-calls-global-cyberwarfare-treaty- > > drivers > > -license-web-users/ > > > > Enjoy! > > > > - ferg > > > >> > >> > >> > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet > fergdawgster(at)gmail.com > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
