TCPA and the War effort

[Rich Gibson]

 Everyone raise your hand if you believe that the US Government can be
 trusted with the power to turn your computer off at will...


> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Lorie Obal wrote:
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> > Found an interesting article about TCPA/Paladium.  It gets very patriotic:
> > "If Saddam is stupid enough to upgrade his PCs to use TCPA, then the
> > American government will be able to hot-list his Windows licences, and
> > thus shut down his PCs, next time there's a war. Booting in untrusted mode
> > won't help. He'd have to dig out old copies of Windows 2000, change to
> > GNU/linux, or find a way to isolate the Fritz chips from his motherboards
> > without breaking them. "
> >
> > -Lorie
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