tcpa

[deimos]

Have you heard from tcpa? Tcpa stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. It will work through a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) aka fritz chip. This chip will be integrated in every cpu, mainboard,gpu or soundcard you buy. With this device, they can controll anything on your hdd. For instance, it deletes pirated software or, even worse, mp3's. You will only be able to install certified software, made by tcpa corporations(IBM,intel,microsoft, sun, amd,fujitsu-siemens,infineon...). they decide what you install. There won't be any free programms and tools in the future, because the developers have to pay gigantic sums to certify them. But what really pisses me off is that they will control what i do, what i have installed over the internet. Thats censorship.
more information:
http://www.notcpa.org/
http://moon.hipjoint.de/tcpa-palladium-faq-de.html/(german)

[SlimShady4538]

Shit. Im with you. None of this censorship bullshit! what I have on my PC is my business and i for one intend to keep it that way

[Drifter]

censorship bullshit?
so perhaps it should be legal to have child porn on your computer if its for your own use.
the real issue is that it would give the major computing companies exclusive possesion of the computing world.

[deimos]

child pornography will ever exist. There will ever be some twisted individuals who want that, tcpa can't do a damn thing about it.

[Disgustipated]

The greater threat of course would be that the government gets involved and gets logging on websites visited etc. Even newer cars have chips installed on a program called CARB V that I believe in the future will allow law enforcement to shut the vehicle down remotely for any reason they feel neccesary. Soon, everything we do and say will be available to any agency that wants the info.

[Politrickian]

Well first of all the tpm chip won't be a huge threat because IBM released a GPL(Open Source, meaning that everyone can edit it and alter it legallgy) driver for the chip. The thing IBM wants with this chip is that your computer can be as fortified as the USA.

However, the other companies of the TCPA have a different agenda, removing non windows oses from pcs(microsoft), making sure you don't download illegal copyrighted music(riaa, they're working with microsoft for that)

Palladium will probably be as buggy as hell so any cracker that gets through can, in theory, play a game of counter-strike on your computer without you knowing it.