Gesendet von ProtonMail mobile -------- Original-Nachricht -------- An 1. Dez. 2017, 17:15, Andrew Eason schrieb:
> Couloutac mentioned Richard Stallman's comments. I was curious what he said, > so I looked it up. > > There is an addendum at the bottom to his original essay. > > from the bottom of the essay at > https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html > (I added a * to the most relevant line): > > As of 2015, treacherous computing has been implemented for PCs in the form of > the “Trusted Platform Module”; however, for practical reasons, the TPM has > proved a total failure for the goal of providing a platform for remote > attestation to verify Digital Restrictions Management. Thus, companies > implement DRM using other methods. At present, “Trusted Platform Modules” are > not being used for DRM at all, and there are reasons to think that it will > not be feasible to use them for DRM. Ironically, this means that the only > current uses of the “Trusted Platform Modules” are the innocent secondary > uses—for instance, to verify that no one has surreptitiously changed the > system in a computer. > > *Therefore, we conclude that the “Trusted Platform Modules” available for PCs > are not dangerous, and there is no reason not to include one in a computer or > support it in system software. > > This does not mean that everything is rosy. Other hardware systems for > blocking the owner of a computer from changing the software in it are in use > in some ARM PCs as well as processors in portable phones, cars, TVs and other > devices, and these are fully as bad as we expected. > > This also does not mean that remote attestation is harmless. If ever a device > succeeds in implementing that, it will be a grave threat to users' freedom. > The current “Trusted Platform Module” is harmless only because it failed in > the attempt to make remote attestation feasible. We must not presume that all > future attempts will fail too. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAL8H3o9mGQP2Oqnjt4sL0_obqOMdmo1ch%2BOWT%2B_p7RSqicstBg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAL8H3o9mGQP2Oqnjt4sL0_obqOMdmo1ch%2BOWT%2B_p7RSqicstBg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/d0QxwpBasWfESrU0FRPf-TNt-B-GNLjQdIJcU4gRpcFH8zuyCmwxHYASjJXWilwCdfpmirdoC3Nry37m51wXgg0NjI2MLdnpJvNMLxCjB9k%3D%40protonmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
