Nathan Hactivist wrote: > The other major hurdle stopping media from flying through the air more > regularly are the issues around trustworthy computing.
"trustworthy computing" always gives me pause for alarm. a few months back I happened upon a fairly comprehensive synopsis of this apparently innocuous little project being developed by The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) - an alliance of Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html - compiled by a professor of security engineering at cambridge. one of the many dangerous implications of TC is an entirely proprietary (hence, closed) system in which hardware/software/content will not function without "legitimatization" from a centralized, remote uber-server. interesting, though, to think about what kinds of rogue systems, networks, content might develop (are developing). jb jeremy beaudry // http://meaning.boxwith.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
