I'm sure that somewhere in the world, a team of "game crackers" are already working on getting around this one. Only hoping that what they create works in the linux world as well as 'other' os's. scsijon At 09:37 AM 4/30/03, Curtis Rey wrote:
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On Monday 28 April 2003 17:44 pm, zentara wrote:
I think the problem comes when the government wants to mandate that all processors are built with circuits built in, that will check these keys. Even that is not so bad, having a real time gpg hardware; but it does get crummy looking when Microsoft wants to run it.
This mirrors my sentiments pretty closely. I have to wonder about why M$ thinks they have the right to be able to oversee/admin this sort of stuff, especially if it goes to the hardware side of things (i.e. on/in a chip and either via firmware, hardcodeed die work or both).
Though not crazy about having the government run this stuff (initially this means U.S. government, 'till/if others follow). If given a choice between the feds or M$ I think the lesser of two evils is obvious. I am always leary about this stuff when one gets past the how to implement this stuff phase and moves on to the "who holds the keys to the kingdom" question. For me this is the real show stopper. How does on make sure that the right entity is adminimg this and in the right fashion?
I understand why Linus has a rather detached attitude about this. If it doesn't go into the kernel/GPL, etc without being opened then the issue is less of a concern.
But, I am greatly bothered by the push M$ is doing to both implement this and then try to get everyone on board with them as admin to manage this stuff. Funny thing is they have a big time guru that's work for them on a catalog/tracking program that boils down those all too familiar M$ things like my pictures, my documents, and yes his project, My Life (been a lot of fun on /.).
Until I can be fairly assured that some responsible party (and M$ ain't it) will be overseeing and running this it gets a big NO vote from me.
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