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Re: "Wild and Crazy": Interview with Palladium's Mario Juarez
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Tue Jul 2 19:33:19 2002
From: jamesd@echeque.com
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>,
<pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 16:31:11 -0700
Cc: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com, pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca
In-reply-to: <15650.725.369998.390441@sandrock.uwaterloo.ca>
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On 2 Jul 2002 at 15:45, pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> In other words, when the MB is fried because of some freak
> electrical surge, I'm screwed, because I can't put the HD into
> another machine and get the data off it?
Only that data that you choose to associate with that specific
computer.
This is a very useful privacy protecting feature.
Of course another use of that feature, more useful to large
corporations and less useful to yourself is that those
corporations can sell you programs and entertainment content that
can only be read on that machine, and ceases to exist when that
machines trusted chip is fried -- they can sell you data that will
be associated with that particular computer, even though you would
prefer it not to be so associated.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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