Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => Intellectual Property & Law => Topic started by: choasforages on 25 January 2003, 06:47
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ibm themselves support it, with a GPL module at that. tcpa does not sound evil. but think about it, tcpa != pallidium. tcpa is an open standerd, pallidium is microsoft "inovating" and drm is **AA's way of saying thanks for being our customer. just read page 6 of the ibm pdf http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/why_tcpa.pdf (http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/why_tcpa.pdf)
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A user can generate an RSA public/private key pair on the tcpa chip
basicly that means it could probably be set up to only run signed executibles, and it sounds like i could do my own signing. so if tcpa is used on a server, using a root kit just got harder, or installing unnessacary applications. and in a diferent article they state that they do not think that drm is in IBM's best interest's.
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Get off your ass and do somthing about it.
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i don't think i made my self clear, im not agiants tcpa, im agianst drm and pallidium. tcpa would be a way to lock my box's down very very very very tightly. if they re-release the code under a different license, it could get encorperated into OpenBSD.