[LINK] This slipped past me...

[Chirgwin, Richard]

...but it seems that the world of free computing is on the endangered list.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/27065.html
>It was a schizophrenic Intel that faced the world at its Developer 
>Conference in San Jose yesterday. In the morning keynote it touted 
>its new multimedia "adaptor" platform, with glossy lifestyle videos 
>explaining how our "digital media experience" would become "more
convenient". 
>
>In the afternoon it explained why it was embedding digital certificates 
>into the hardware - and a spokesman from VeriSign Inc., which is partnering

>with Intel in this great adventure, could hardly believe his luck. 

And so on ... embedding certs in hardware is so dangerous and invasive, I
can hardly believe it's been let pass without more comment. There is
absolutely no cause for VeriSign to know anything at all about any consumer,
without an explicit consent by that consumer. 

Richard Chirgwin

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