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Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Feb 5 13:32:24 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:07:12 -0800
In-reply-to: <171698b6a6b2c59c7b495fd1259d66b0@ecn.org>
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On 3 Feb 2005 at 22:25, Anonymous wrote:
> Now, my personal perspective on this is that this is no real
> threat. It allows people who choose to use the capability to
> issue reasonably credible and convincing statements about
> their software configuration. Basically it allows people to
> tell the truth about their software in a convincing way.
> Anyone who is threatened by the ability of other people to
> tell the truth should take a hard look at his own ethical
> standards. Honesty is no threat to the world!
>
> The only people endangered by this capability are those who
> want to be able to lie. They want to agree to contracts and
> user agreements that, for example, require them to observe
> DRM restrictions and copyright laws, but then they want the
> power to go back on their word, to dishonor their commitment,
> and to lie about their promises. An honest man is not
> affected by Trusted Computing; it would not change his
> behavior in any way, because he would be as bound by his word
> as by the TC software restrictions.
The ability to convincingly tell the truth is a very handy one
between people who are roughly equal. It is a potentially
disastrous one if one party can do violence with impunity to
the one with the ability to convincingly tell the truth.
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James A. Donald
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