Are you afraid to buy a padlock? You think the padlock maker has any more access to your locked up shiznit than anyone else.
Does the padlock maker have basically effortless and instant access to the system the way that Microsoft would? Does the padlock maker control how I use the lock, whether it will work if I don't meet their exacting criteria that can change after I've bought the product, or in any way alter the information or property I might use the lock to secure? As a final note, does having the padlock actually make it easier for people to circumvent my security, because the lock itself has weaknesses that make the walls or cabinet less efficient?
Your analogy is terrible.
This whole argument is idiotic and senseless. Just anti-Microsoft BS for people with nothing else to talk about so they make up something for those who are clueless and have nothing better to do but listen.
I've been reading about Palladium and TCI since they were first revealed, actually. The difference is that I can also read the writing on the wall, and that I apparently choose sources other than Paul Thurott and the Redmond Six Piece Band.
The most successful antipiracy devices are hardware-based. They are cumbersome and expensive, but of course, they work.
Name one mass-market hardware anti-piracy measure that is related to software or information stored on computers.
While Palladium has NOTHING to do with spying for those of us not in fantasyland, spying is a very effective deterrent. This has been proven by many studies. And for those it doesn't deter, it usually convicts.
Microsoft on Palladium
A closed sphere of trust binds data or a service to both a set of users (logon) and to a set of acceptable applications. As shown in Figure 2, the nexus (formerly referred to as the Trusted Operating Root, or TOR) does not simply open the vault; the nexus will open only a particular vault, and only for a small list of applications.
HMMM. THIS DOES NOT SOUND BAD. IT IS ALL ABOUT TRUST AND NOT COTROLLING DOCUMENTS AND RIGHTS THROUGH HARDWARE. WE DON'T MONITOR YOUR SYSTEM, WHICH IS WHY XP STOPS WORKING. UH...
PAYNOATTENTIONTOTHEMANBEHINDTHECURTAIN.
More seriously, if you read the paper at all and remember how much Microsoft lies and twists the truth, a pretty vivid picture is painted. Programs that aren't 'trusted' are locked out, as is data. All Microsoft has to do is convince people to turn it on, lock out the ability to turn it off (it's a feature!), and then they
own you.
The Register weighs in.
From the MS patent application:
"a computerized method for a digital rights management operating system comprising: assuming a trusted identity; executing a trusted application; loading rights-managed data into memory for access by the trusted application; and protecting the rights-managed data from access by an untrusted program while the trusted application is executing."
But wait... Palladium isn't about DRM, they said!
""Controls your information after you send it." Yes folks, here it comes, DRM - we've softened the bullet point head, but accidentally got onto the record companies in the next sentence. But they've evolved: Palladium "could allow users to exercise 'fair use' (like making personal copies of a CD) and publishers could at least start releasing works that cut a compromise between free and locked-down."
We're not entirely sure we know these record companies, but they're clearly not related to the ones who're trying to stop you playing your music CDs on your PC, copying your CDs at all, and salivating at the prospect of time-limited/per play rental arrangements."
Well, we're well into the 21st century and the world still hasn't become "pleasantville" with perfectly honest employees from top to bottom, so let's throw that one in the trash bin where it has been since the first prostitute hit the street.
My dad's company has never had a known, major theft. They rely on employees as much as they do on technology. There's the exception that disproves the rule.
Have a nice day.
Wish I had seen this comment first. It explains the lace of knowledge of the product, deterrents in general, and any arguments based in reality. Nothing more than another out-of-control Zealot.
Lack of knowledge?
