[LINK] This slipped past me...

[Ann Moffatt]

richard wrote

"embedding certs in hardware is so dangerous and invasive"

intel tried this about 5 years ago. there was a great backlash & it was
dropped. perhaps in today's more nervous world intel think it will get
better acceptance!!

peace & love

annm
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chirgwin, Richard" <Richard.Chirgwin@informa.com.au>
To: <link@www.anu.edu.au>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 7:48 AM
Subject: [LINK] This slipped past me...


> ...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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