Trusted Computing

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 [iHeartApple ... do you?] 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.

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 [Daring Fireball] Trusted: The existence of a TPM chip on themotherboard does not mean that application developers will be able tocreate apps which can produce files which can only be opened in theapp that created the file. You’d need operating system support forthat, including a way to prevent files from being copied to othercomputers, and adding a feature like this to the OS would be suicidal.In what way could such a capability possibly be construed asbeneficial to users?

 [Library Autonomous Zone] DRM, hardware, and digital libraries: CoryDoctorow's article (Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?,BoingBoing, July 31, 2005) about the forthcoming Intel-basedMacOS X operating system gives a quick, down-and-dirty, angry-user'sview of how changes in hardware can affect usability of digitalinformation. Cory says,

 [r0nin] Apple + Trusted Computing = No Joy: People working with early versions of the forthcoming Intel-based MacOS X operating system have discovered that Apple's new kernel makes use of Intel's Trusted Computing hardware. If this "feature" appears in a commercial, shipping version of Apple's OS, they'll lose me as a customer -- I've used Apple computers since 1979 and have a Mac tattooed on my right bicep, but this is a deal-breaker.

[Macsimumnews.com] Macsimum News | Apple & Macintosh Related News Reviews & Opinions: There’s talk that people working with early versions of the upcoming Intel-based Mac OS X operating system have discovered that Apple’s new kernel makes use of Intel’s Trusted Computing hardware, according to a blog by Cory Doctorow at the Boing Boing Web site. And the author thinks it’s such a horrible idea that he says he’ll leave the Mac platform if it happens.

[Staff.washington.edu] Oren Sreebny's Weblog: Corey Doctorow on rumors of Apple will use ...: An application can write documents in "open formats" but use Trusted Computing to prevent competing applications from reading them. Apple may never implement this in their own apps (though I'll be shocked silly if it isn't used in iTunes and the DVD player), but Trusted Computing in the kernel is like a rifle on the mantelpiece: if it's present in act one, it'll go off by act three.

 [Kissmoose.com] Cory Doctorow: Here's a haunting Gmaps hack: "The High Yeild ...: The Trusted Computing people say that they intend on Trusted Computing being used .It's like a blender that will only chop the food that Cuisinart says .

 [Antonymous.blogspot.com] Hot soup in my eye: Music industry, Trusted Computing: People working with early versions of the forthcoming Intel-based MacOS X operating system have discovered that Apple's new kernel makes use of Intel's Trusted Computing hardware. If this "feature" appears in a commercial, shipping version of Apple's OS, they'll lose me as a customer -- I've used Apple computers since 1979 and have a Mac tattooed on my right bicep, but this is a deal-breaker.

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Posted at August 10, 2005 04:59 PM