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Rotisserie Question
Palladium is an entirely new computer architecture recently announced by MS as designed to improve security. Under this new architecture new "security
What are the implications of such an architecture? Is Palladium the inevitable future of the Internet? |
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A few realities:
(1) Whether we like it or not, some sort of DRM (Digital Rights Management) facility is going to end up on mass-marketed consumer computers. The underlying interests More...
Two thoughts:
1-While the suggested actions in the face of DRM are laudable, I fear that they will ultimately prove unsatisfactory. Just as one cannot be "a little bit pregnant," More...
A great deal has been written about Palladium, but the most telling points have focused on a crucial feature of the technology: this is not a technology that affords users More...
An interesting analysis of the shortcomings of the palldium campaign by Microsoft
While my initial reaction to Palladium was the Microsoft was teaming up with Hollywood to create a "trusted" computer that would not trust its user to refrain from copying, I More...
And if Drew's assumption is correct - which it is very likely to be - what should be bad about users having better tools to control their privacy and security. More...
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
--Richard Feynman
I would suggest we consider the campaign by organizations such as the More...
I agree that the public needs to be alerted to the potential dangers of Palladium. We need an informed public debate about its implications and dangers. But let's also not More...
Palladium will never make it. Perhaps a certain small or large number of ignorant users will use the chip, but the entire architecture and system will never be used or More...
This architecture would help reducing the ever so often insecure factor of human error usually by ?making moves? on the computer that lead to implementation of a virus. From that More...
As I understand, the new technology will increase the cost of a new computer. All the advantages MS is touting as reasons why consumers should be willing to pay more More...
Though it may be interesting to analyze how the regulators of Palladium plan to work with pornography, this is, by FAR, not a crucial issue in forecasting whether or not More...
One of the factors keeping more security from operating on networks is speed and the perceived need for instantaneous presentation of information. I'll bet that consumers won't stand for the More...