Cory Doctorow has an editorial at BoingBiong about what it will mean if Apple adopts Intel’s Trusted Computing hardware in new Macs. As consumers, it’s vitally important that we reject any operating system that provides application developers with access to these features, and indeed, reject hardware that provides these features as well. The copyright industry hates the idea of the general purpose PC existing under the control of the user. Trusted Computing is an attempt to take that away.
Untrusted users
August 1, 2005
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