Just for the record: About "Trusted Computing", the TPM chips in your computer (the FAQ calls it Fritz chip), and other. Must read: TCPA FAQ by Ross J Anderson: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Notice, it dates back to 2003. Basically, the presence of TPM doesn't make your computer trusted for you. The trust is for others, basically there can be a section of your computer what you cannot access and cannot control and cannot tamper with. This can be used for DRM purposes (I can mathematically prove that any kind of DRM is breakable in an open system, since the player software has every information to decode audio/video data, you just have to get that info). Or other purposes.
Why I wasn't surprised about the whole data collection and PRISM stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_%28FBI%29 Notice, this dates back to 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NarusInsight On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:40 AM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]> wrote: > In an amazing twist of irony, it's turning out that trusted computing is > wholly untrustable for a new set of reasons than previously enumerated. > see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4 > > Now it looks like it was a fantastic backdoor to the world's intelligence > apparatus: > > http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warns-key-entities-not-to-use-windows-8-links-the-nsa/ > > I really try hard to keep politics and technical discussion separated, but > this falls under checking one own's assumptions. Plus in one regard it is > just plain ironic. > > Andrew McElroy > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
