Palladium, not a good thing? (was Re: [H-GEN] antivirus and squid recommendations?)

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Tuesday 14 January 2003 05:01 pm, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> Ahh well, it will be a brave new world (big brother watching too,
> literally) once Palladium becomes a reality -- and this is going to
> happen much sooner than most people expect.  It has the potential to
> transform the way we all work with computers.  DRM (digital rights
> management) has the ability to not only kill the very concept of
> viruses, 

My understanding (which is rather sketchy so far) of Palladium and the 'Fritz' 
chip technology is that it has nothing fundamental about it that could do 
anything to combat viruses.  

I have read that the wording of press releases from Intel and Microsoft imply 
the opposite.  I suspect that was done deliberately because main stream 
journalists would generally lack sufficient understanding of the technology 
not to jump to that sort of conclusion.  

For more information about Palladium and TCPA, I refer all list members to the 
following url.  I suspect that document would contain more facts and less 
miss-information than any main stream press article.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html



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