TCPA and the War effort

[Christopher Wagner]

The very thought of the government having the ability to shutdown my
computer (or do anything else with my computer) without my consent or
knowledge at there whim disturbs me greatly.  If I was forced into a
situation like that, I would no longer use the computer.  I'd find something
else to do with my life.  I trust the government with that power about as
much as I trust M$ to make a secure, stable and powerful OS.

- Christopher Wagner
chrisw at pacaids.com

Packaging Aids Corporation - Information Systems
P.O. Box 9144
San Rafael, CA 94912-9144
http://www.pacaids.com/
(415) 454-4868 x116
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Gibson [mailto:chilidog at chilidog.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 1:50 PM
To: nblug
Subject: Re: TCPA and the War effort


 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:
>
> > 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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