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The History of Trusted Computing Part 2

The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance becomes the Trusted Computing Group.

1Author’s note- Anytime I post an excerpt of an article and link the title, I am expecting you to follow the link and read the entire article. I totally understand if you are unwilling to do so, but I would politely request that you accept, along with your self imposed limitation on knowledge, an equally self imposed injunction on commenting on the topic in public. These linked article are incredibly important for understanding how we got to where we are currently. Without that information, one can not be expected to help take us from where we are to any place better.

Thank you in advance for respecting the idea that “TL;DR = STFU”.

Excerpt from-

‘Trusted Computing' Frequently Asked Questions

- TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium / TCPA

by Ross Anderson

“The modern age only started when Gutenberg invented movable type printing in Europe, which enabled information to be preserved and disseminated even if princes and bishops wanted to ban it. For example, when Wycliffe translated the Bible into English in 1380-1, the Lollard movement he started was suppressed easily; but when Tyndale translated the New Testament in 1524-5, he was able to print over 50,000 copies before they caught him and burned him at the stake. The old order in Europe collapsed, and the modern age began. Societies that tried to control information became uncompetitive, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union it seemed that democratic liberal capitalism had won. But now, TC has placed at risk the priceless inheritance that Gutenberg left us. Electronic books, once published, will be vulnerable; the courts can order them to be unpublished and the TC infrastructure will do the dirty work.”

“The Soviet Union attempted to register and control all typewriters and fax machines. TC similarly attempts to register and control all computers. The problem is that everything is becoming computerised. We have absolutely no idea where ubiquitous content control mechanisms will lead us.“

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Originally written in 2001, the the TCFAQ was one of the earliest detailed analyses listing concerns regarding the Trusted Computing Platform. They had yet to really consider the depth of the liability this would present to individual privacy in the era of the overly obsessed with every thing you are doing in every moment of your life modern day supranational public private partnership surveillance state. But don’t worry, it didn’t take long…


Excerpt from 2002 CNET article-

Trust or treachery?

"Trusted computing" may secure the PCs of the masses, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies for software makers and Hollywood. “

by Robert Lemos

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and of the GNU project for creating free versions of key Unix programs, lampooned the technology in a recent column as "treacherous computing."

"Large media corporations, together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you," he wrote. "Proprietary programs have included malicious features before, but this plan would make it universal."

He and others, such as Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson, argue that the intention of so-called trusted computing is to block data from consumers and other PC users, not from attackers. The main goal of such technology, they say, is "digital-rights management," or the control of copyrighted content. Under today's laws, copyright owners maintain control over content even when it resides on someone else's PC--but many activists are challenging that authority.

Continued in The History of Trusted Computing Part 3

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