Re: Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA
at Friday, January 31, 2003 2:18 AM, Peter Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: > More particularly, governments are likely to want to explore the > issues related to potential foreign control/influence over domestic > governmental use/access to domestic government held data. > In other words, what are the practical and policy implications for a > government if a party external to the government may have the > potential power to turn off our access to its own information and > that of its citizens. And indeed - download patches silently to change the "disable" functionality to "email anything interesting directly to the CIA" functionality. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sovereignty issues and Palladium/TCPA
It looks like Palladium (or whatever it's called this week) is of concern not just to individuals but to governments as well (the following text forwarded from elsewhere): -- Snip -- Governments would want to explore the implications of the use and retention of government-held information and use of software for government business. More particularly, governments are likely to want to explore the issues related to potential foreign control/influence over domestic governmental use/access to domestic government held data. In other words, what are the practical and policy implications for a government if a party external to the government may have the potential power to turn off our access to its own information and that of its citizens. -- Snip -- Unlike China, not everyone can address this problem by building their own systems from the silicon on up. Peter. - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]