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RE: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Sulzberger)
Fri Feb 4 12:33:43 2005
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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 01:13:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
To: Erwann ABALEA <erwann@abalea.com>
Cc: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>,
Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com>, rah@shipwright.com,
cryptography@metzdowd.com, cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net,
Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502021726530.5915@shining.seclogd.org>
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Erwann ABALEA wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Trei, Peter wrote:
>
>> Seeing as it comes out of the TCG, this is almost certainly
>> the enabling hardware for Palladium/NGSCB. Its a part of
>> your computer which you may not have full control over.
>
> Please stop relaying FUD. You have full control over your PC, even if this
> one is equiped with a TCPA chip. See the TCPA chip as a hardware security
> module integrated into your PC. An API exists to use it, and one if the
> functions of this API is 'take ownership', which has the effect of
> erasing it and regenerating new internal keys.
>
> --
> Erwann ABALEA <erwann@abalea.com> - RSA PGP Key ID: 0x2D0EABD5
After TCPA systems are the only systems for sale at CompUSA, how long
before this off switch is removed? All agree we live in a time of crisis;
at any moment MICROSOFT/RIAA/MPAA/HOMSECPOL/CONGREGATIONOFMARTYRS may
require of all of us an attestation of faith and obedience greater and more
secure than present hardware can convincingly convey.
oo--JS.
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