Remember the old Soviet Union where you had to register copiers and typewriters and could not do anything without the blessing from the State? Trusted Computing takes you back to the bad old days and into tyranny.
ulti...@live.com
"I'm just curious.. and maybe a little dense because I've never
encountered the things he talks about."
What does this do for the average user? The person who comes home from
work, checks e-mail, browses the net, and maybe fires up a few games
now and then. Is this really such a problem for THAT person?[/quote]
Do you think that companies should be able to dictate what programs
you are allowed to install on your machine? Do you think they should
control what music or video you play on the hard ware that you paid
for? Do you want to keep having to ask permission to do the most basic
computer tasks? Do you want to be automatically regarded as "the
enemy" or "criminal" and let them have the power to cripple/brick your
computer? Does guilty until proven innocent ring a bell here?
The system they are proposing is ment for one purpose, and one
purpose only, to control the *USER* and make sure they can't do
anything without the blessing from above (companies).
Remember the Soviet Union, where copy machines and type writers had
to be registered and people who went against the status quo were
punished? This is a high tech version of that.