Palladium / TCPA

[jad1097]

Palladium Clues May Lie In AMD Motherboard Design (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,282114,00.asp?kc=ETAV102049TX1K0100486)


TCPA (http://www.trustedcomputing.org/)

TCPA / Palladium FAQ (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/tcpa-faq.html)

TCPA / Palladium FAQ (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/) another one

Fear of Big Brother in Microsoft technology (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/26/1023864604750.html)

lMS DRM OS, retagged 'secure OS' to ship with Longhorn? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25852.htm)

MS to eradicate GPL, hence Linux (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html)

Microsoft's Latest Security Plan (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,267488,00.asp?kc=EWAV102049TX1K0100487)

Microsoft Takes Security to Next Level
(http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3389326,00.html)
Microsoft's Digital Rights Management--A Little Deeper (http://bsdvault.net/article.php?sid=527&mode=&order=0)

EU Warns Microsoft on New Plan
(http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53611,00.html)


Originally posted here. (http://forums.digitalmntsnow.com/vbforums/index.php?s=)

[jad1097]

Nobody has a problem with this kind of stuff here anymore?

First two from the FAQ

1. What are TCPA and Palladium?

TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by Intel. Their stated goal is `a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will build on the TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features.


2. What does TCPA / Palladium do, in ordinary English?

It provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor. The obvious application is digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a Palladium platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.

TCPA / Palladium will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. Pirate software can be detected and deleted remotely. It will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buying it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: Palladium could be the answer to his prayer.

There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are `born classified' and can't be leaked electronically to journalists. Auction sites might insist that you use trusted proxy software for bidding, so that you can't bid tactically at the auction. Cheating at computer games could be made more difficult.

There is a downside too. There will be remote censorship: the mechanisms designed to delete pirated music under remote control may be used to delete documents that a court (or a software company) has decided are offensive - this could be anything from pornography to writings that criticise political leaders. Software companies can also make it harder for you to switch to their competitors' products; for example, Word could encrypt all your documents using keys that only Microsoft products have access to; this would mean that you could only read them using Microsoft products, not with any competing word processor.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

I hope it crashes and burns big time. I've checked into this myself and its all about control. M$ has enuff control they dont need more. Its gonna get to the point where they arent even gonna let you prgram without a license. Now I'm not against what it is, only what it will lead to. I mean if they do this whats stopping them from telling you how to go about your PC activites. TO me its against what the name says- PC PERSONAL Computer. Whats so personal about any of that! If that happens Im off Windows and onto Linux. Not a threat a promise and I'm sure I'm not alone. M$ does that and they will be promoting Linux isnt that a twist!I dont know if it will even get off the ground. Remember Intels seriel # and how long it lasted. One month later bios revisions allowed you to disable it and everyone did. That wasnt nearly as bad as all this. Now Intel is back at it with Gates to try to push it through. That will be that last step. I will be anti-Intel/anti-M$ if that happens. How can they not realise this?:( :( :eek: ;) :t

[leprechaun_40]

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!

Remember these words,, write your congress, write your president (even he might want some privacy). DON'T LET IT HAPPEN!!

Watch minority report, scare the hell outa ya. Yes, some cool tech stuff, but I don't want ads calling me by name, I don't want a store hologram welcoming me by name, hell I hate wal-mart greeters and they don't even know me:)

We, the people, have to fight for our rights, let our leaders know we don't want this stuff. Don't buy it, don't use it, don't want it.

They also want to put GPS in your cell phone, under the guise of safety, uh huh. I don't believe it, it's to keep tabs on where you are.

I won't buy a CD that I can't play anytime or a DVD, remember DVD's that you could buy for a small price, like $4 and play on a special player, you had to pay each time you wanted to see the film?
Those didn't last long did they? Why? because the consumer said hell no, I already bought it, why should I pay to see it again?

We need to let Bill and Intel know now that we won't do this. :r

[Mutant_Donkey]

thx for the big explanation. i dont live in america, but i HOPE this palladium thing dies!!

[leprechaun_40]

I can see where you might be coming from,, just what you want,, someone looking over your shoulder again, sighs,, why is it the govt's of the world think they need to know what all of us are doing all the time? :( They must fear that we will learn just how bad they are screwing us. I hear it's worse in China and Viet Nam, poor suckers.