RE: tcpa/palladium


Subject: RE: tcpa/palladium
From: Andy Firman (aflist@gci.net)
Date: Sat Jun 29 2002 - 18:42:03 AKDT


Here is a follow up by Cringley on Palladium.
It mentions Linux and open source again.
This kind of power they (MS and Intel) could ultimately
gain is rather unsettling.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Jim Gribbin
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 4:02 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: tcpa/palladium

I just had a scary thought, what happens when this filters into the
servers and routers that make up the Internet. Will we be required to
use a computer considered 'Trustworthy' just for web access? What
happens then if we bad-mouth MS and they decide to brand use
un-Trustworthy. Will we loose all net access? Will these guys then
control our right to Free Speech?

How about this one? An internet router running MS 2000 server detects
you aren't running an MS operating system and your internet access drops
to 1/4 speed and you are routed through Egypt to get to your corporate
HQ downtown in much the same way these printers detect your use of an
off-brand printer cartridge and drop your printing quality by 75%.

Jim Gribbin

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 23:52, Andy Firman wrote:
>
>
> This seems to be really scary stuff.
> (and a little over my head)
>
> But wanted to post as Linux is part of this issue.
>
> I will be interested to hear comments
> from the Alaska community.....
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
>

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