Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought

[Russell McOrmond]

On 12-02-18 10:54 AM, Rudolf O. wrote:
> The problem is that TPM is advocated by Intel, Microsoft, Apple and
> others who want to control your hardware and software. The term is
> their marketing term for something they control.

  I think we are throwing the technology baby out with the dirty legal 
bathwater.


  The problems we are talking about are legal in nature.   While I know 
there is a tendency in the technical community try try to use technology 
to route around law, I believe that is counter-productive.   We must 
apply legal fixes to legal problems.  I believe we in the technical 
community have a moral obligation to get involved in politics and law to 
fix these bugs, rather than seek to hide ourselves from laws which will 
continue to harm the rest of society.




  The Trusted Platform Module is a useful technology for protecting the 
rights of computer owners, if only the law were there to protect rather 
than in too many cases prohibit the rights of computer owners.

  Anyone other than the owner controlling keys should be illegal: a 
legal problem.

  Conditioning the supply of publicly published copyrighted content on 
allowing a "remote attestation" of a computer to verify that it is *not* 
controlled by the owner should be illegal: a legal problem (and solved 
through policy proposals embedded within the IT property rights petition 
http://c11.ca/petition/ict  )


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