Microsoft will demonstrate its much debated Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security initiative for the first time next week at an event in New Orleans, and will also provide further details on its plans for managing IT systems. Read the details at InfoWorld.
Microsoft to Get Technical on Longhorn, ‘Palladium’
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Go fuck yourself.
The question of whether or not I stay on Windows depends on how invasive Palladium is and if I can work around it. If I can install a mod chip (or whatever) and work around the DRM crap, I suppose I’ll warez the new version of Windows and stick with it for awhile longer.
THen you’re just adding to the problem. If you dont like them dont use them.. it’s that simple. But to keep using them just “because” is adding to their momentum… If this doesnt make sense i blame the beer (golden monkey ale)…. its independant and not watered down unlike some proprietary OS’s.
THen you’re just adding to the problem. If you dont like them dont use them.. it’s that simple.
Well, I don’t necessarily have a big problem with them … yet, because they haven’t implented anything that affects my ability to pirate all of their apps
WPA takes merely a small .exe (keygen) to work around and I have yet to run into a problem with DRM either. So the pundits who constantly talk about MS ‘controlling my computer’, well … whatever.
When Microsoft’s new system is tied to a digital key chip on your new computer that you CANNOT access… the workarounds will be difficult to impossible.
Thankfully, there are other platforms besides Microsoft, although Linus has betrayed Linux and his recent work for the government may prove to be the downfall of Linux.
Thankfully, there are other platforms besides Microsoft, although Linus has betrayed Linux and his recent work for the government may prove to be the downfall of Linux.
It is really not that bad. He just dont want to close it up. As far as i understand (correct me if Im wrong) there is nothing that says DRM has to be applied/implemented, he just keeps it open/free for anyone who wants to implement it. And in that case there will always be linux distros not using it for “treacherous computing” purposes. But lets say that I’ve missedunderstood this, lets say it does not work like this. Well in such case there are other really nice OS’es on other really nice architectures out there for us to use!
— “Thankfully, there are other platforms besides Microsoft, although Linus has betrayed Linux and his recent work for the government may prove to be the downfall of Linux.”
To move to prevent DRM on Linux at all would be the only betrayal. A betrayal of the entire Linux community. Linus knows that trying to control Linux is NOT good. He made the right choice in sticking with the GNU and leaving it open to all.
Do YOU think he should revoke or modify the GNU license that is so central to what Linux is? I don’t.
Besides, TCPA technology is not scary at all. It allows the owner of the machine to retain COMPLETE control and still comply with the specs. The only question is wether the actual implimentations by the hardware manufacturers will allow this, and what combining it with Microsofts “technology formerly known as Palladium” will result in. So far, THATS what looks scary, the Microsoft stuff. It has NOTHING to do with Linux or what Linus said about DRM.
“When Microsoft’s new system is tied to a digital key chip on your new computer that you CANNOT access… the workarounds will be difficult to impossible. ”
As I’ve said before, once the chip is in place it’s a static target. Working around it will not be that problematic at all for those that decide to have a crack at it. If it’s as all pervasive as it sounds then simply feeding it with false information and doing whatever the hell you like elsewhere is likely the easiest course of action.
I remember way back in my Amiga days someone tried to release a game (Robocop IIRC) with a hardware protection doohickey that went in a serial port. It took all of a week before the 50+ (According to the manufacturer) levels of protection were cracked and the game was available to copy. For a more up to date example XP’s protection was broken before it even got full release. DRM is absolutely no different, it’s a pointless exercise which is going to cost the industry millions to implement. In essence they’ve come up with a method of copy protection that simply has no chance of preventing copying.
DRM is just a crutch that’s been thrown to companies who are seeing their IP copied. Instead of changing their business practice to better suit the current environment, they’re being assured that with this mystical chip they can continue business as usual. Ain’t gonna work that way. The only realistic way out for them is to lower prices to a decent level so that piracy is less attractive than purchasing an original, thereby maintaining profits through increased volume of sales (Maybe someone should have a chat to Jobs).
The evil empire (Microsoft) can’t force me to use their platform. I think it would be great if some European company started making processors and replaced Intel.
Some people, mostly geekish types, who live in very ideal worlds, simply do not understand the realities of prisons, chains, and shackles.
If you believe that these implements of control and punishment can be put to ‘mostly’ or ‘all’ good purposes, then it is beyond me to change your mind.
Only the experience of losing control over your computer (which is what Palladium/Legrande/DRM/TCPA/etc is for) will have a chance of waking you up. And that is the mildest of wakeup calls.
We are not talking dongles or flimsy security. We are talking about your CPU, your motherboard, and your OS all implementing mutually supportive control systems. The tools used to crack dongles will not even run on these new computers. And there will be built in monitoring programs so that if you subvert any of the systems, the authorities will be notified. Under the existing DMCA and Super-DMCA laws, someone who subverts security mechanisms will go to prison for a long time as well as pay a large fine. It is a federal crime and felony to subvert security systems.
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/superdmca.html
Is it so hard to understand that you don’t build prison technology into your house when you don’t have ultimate say over how you live in your house?
It’s not the GNU Public License that dictates what is legal and what is not. It is the governments of the world which are mostly owned by special interest groups. Unless you are absolutely blind, a person knows that the RIAA, the MPAA, the USDOJ, the EU, and many other forces are trying their best to create and implement draconian laws for managing how people can legally use computers.
It’s all so very simple… if you don’t want to make your house into a prison… don’t build chains, shackles and cells into the house plans.