Ross's TCPA paper
Marshall Clow
marshall at idio.com
Fri Jun 28 10:56:30 PDT 2002
Pretty good summary in NTK <http://www.ntk.net>
> Lot of talk this week about Microsoft's new bluesky project:
> In the softest of previews in Newsweek, Steven Levy banged
> on about PALLADIUM, alluding to the sacred (but as it turns
> out, a bit horse-blind) guardian of Troy. British readers
> will know the term better as the fancy West End theatre that
> spawned Beatlemania and now shows overpriced performances of
> "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Figures: either way, you're not
> getting in, and we're not sure you'd want to. In a
> (cryptographically hardened) nutshell: Microsoft's Palladium
> will be an area of your future PC, fenced off and unreadable
> except for trusted software. "Untrusted" apps won't have
> have access. And how does code gain Palladium's trust? By
> having you, the PC owner, sanction its entry? Oh no.
> *You're* untrustworthy - you might sign in your dodgy CD and
> DVD ripping programs. No, this area will only be for
> software sanctioned by Microsoft and their paying friends -
> Hollywood-approved media players, for instance. No backstage
> pass for you at this Palladium, even though you own the damn
> theatre. As Ross Anderson points out in his FAQ, "Palladium"
> is just Microsoft's fancy name for the old "Trusted PC"
> initiative. And the only reason why they need to trust the
> PC is: they don't trust its owner. Remember that when the
> hard sell begins: the only person Palladium protects your
> computer from - is you.
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp
> - Levy ensuring that RMS *stays* "the Last Hacker"
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html
> - Ross Anderson, Cassandra to this tale
> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,274309,00.asp
> - hold on: this project is headed by someone called Juarez?
> http://www.alt2600.com/faqs/
> - is that some kind of joke?
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-- Marshall
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