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Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Reed)
Fri Feb 4 12:35:32 2005
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:45:21 -0700
From: "Ed Reed" <ereed@novell.com>
To: <erwann@abalea.com>, <iang@systemics.com>
Cc: <cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net>, <camera_lumina@hotmail.com>,
<cryptography@metzdowd.com>, <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>,
<rah@shipwright.com>
>>> Ian G <iang@systemics.com> 2/2/2005 6:38:46 PM >>>
> I'm just curious on this point. I haven't seen much
> to indicate that Microsoft and others are ready
> for a nymous, tradeable software assets world.
No, and neither are corporate customers, to a large extent.
Accountability is, in fact, a treasured property of business computing.
Lack of accountability creates things like Enron, Anderson Consulting,
Oil-for-Food scams, and the missing 9 billion dollars or so of
reconstruction aid. It's the fuel that propells SPAM, graft, and
identity theft.
What I've not seen is much work providing accountability for anonymous
transactions.
It's a shame people persist in thinking a single solution will satify
everyone, as though computing was somehow different from everything else
in life.
Ed
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