‘Locked down’? What the hell are they locking down exactly, the electrons or the magnetic fields? It’s a computer. Trusted Computing is just a tool to force you to run such an OS, and to force you not to modify it so that you can get your power back.Īs usual an exciting puff-piece featuring lots of pseudo-technical buzzwords. Today, it’s trivially easy to create an OS that grants total control over a machine to its vendor. Unless you convince everyone you know to avoid computers with TPMs (and convince them to do the same for their friends), we’re all going to be running Longhorn, like it or not.
Summary of calmira operating system code#
Once your friends are in the same bind and they’re forced to switch to the mainstream OS, that OS can even include code to refuse to talk to you unless your computer is running an unmodified mainstream OS. You’ll have a choice: switch to Longhorn (or whatever’s the most popular OS at that point) or be denied access to Internet services or even the Internet. Once that happens, service providers (from e-commerce sites to regular sites to ISPs) will be able to deny you access if you’re not running an unmodified mainstream OS. One day, 95% of desktop users will have this chip and run a mainstream OS.
Summary of calmira operating system software#
The power of a TPM chip to take away your freedom depends on its attestation features a computer with a TPM chip can create a digitally signed attestation message proving that the computer is running certain software (say, an unhacked copy of Longhorn). You are, whether or not you use it on your computer. Not like I’m particularly likely to end up saddled with Longhorn.
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