Posts with keyword: trusted

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Computers That Control You

Fri Dec 16 16:51:00 2005

Commenting on my piece yesterday about TPM (trusted platform module) and computers that control you rather than the other way around, Jon Udell says: Presumably no controls take effect unless the TPM is not merely activated by the operating system, but also pressed into service to guard some piece of protected content. So in theory it needn't affect you if you're creating rich media that you intend others to use freely, or if you're using rich media that others have created with the same intent. From Jon Udell: Technologies of control, technologies of useReferenced Fri Dec 16 2005 16:54:14
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TPM and Positive ID

Thu Dec 15 09:45:00 2005

There's an article at MSNBC about how Trusted Computing Platform (TCP) chips, already installed in many computers, could be used to provide "positive ID" on the Internet and end anonymity. I find articles dealing with Internet identity in the mainstream media usually scare me--and this one is no exception. What scares me is the willingness people have to sweep aside technical hurdles, privacy concerns, and practicality in wide-eyed optimism about how technology will eventually solve all our Identity problems. With a TPM onboard, each time your computer starts, you prove your identity to the machine using something as simple
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