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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Boing Boing: Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?

"... The point of Trusted Computing is to make it hard -- impossible, if you believe the snake-oil salesmen from the Trusted Computing world -- to open a document in a player other than the one that wrote it in the first place, unless the application vendor authorizes it. It's like a blender that will only chop the food that Cuisinart says you're allowed to chop. It's like a car that will only take the brand of gas that Ford will let you fill it with. It's like a web-site that you can only load in the browser that the author intended it to be seen in.

What this means is that 'open formats' is no longer meaningful. "

Item posted by Rob @ 8/03/2005 04:31:00 pm ACDST U+9.30 |
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