[LINK] This slipped past me...

[Chirgwin, Richard]

This is worse, Ann: 5 years ago, Intel wanted to provide a processor ID
number. This time, it's a Verisign certificate - in others words, just
starting your PC would demand the goodwill of two organisations; neither of
them able to claim a legitimate right to invade user privacy after purchase.

Richard Chirgwin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Moffatt [mailto:annm@exocat.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 13 September 2002 09:03
> To: Chirgwin, Richard; link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] This slipped past me...
> 
> 
> 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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