Long article...a MUST READ for all interested in Trusted Computing...


EFF Report on Trusted Computing

http://invisiblog.com/1c801df4aee49232/

"...But let us begin with some positive elements of the EFF report. This is perhaps the first public, critical analysis of TC which fails to include two of the worst lies about the technology, lies promulgated primarily by Ross Anderson and Lucky Green: that only authorized programs can run "trusted", and that unauthorized or illegal programs and data will be deleted from computers or prevented from running.

The EFF appears to recognize the key feature of TC, which gives it its name: that trust is in the eye of the truster. Anyone can create code which benefits from TC features, and it is up to the user of a computer to decide which local and remote software he will trust..."

and later in the article:

"...Make no mistake about it: TC is coming. All the rhetoric, all the protests and objections, are doing nothing to alter the apparently unstoppable momentum of this new technology. Microsoft is committed to NGSCB (Palladium), and the TCG (TCPA) is working actively on specs for cell phones and other devices. There is even considerable work to bring TC into Linux..."

Here is the complete report onf TCG(TCPA) by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
http://www.eff.org/Infra/trusted_com...0031001_tc.php[/i]