Can you trust your computer?

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December 31, 2004 - 23:41


by Richard Stallman


Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing", large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you. (Microsoft's version of this scheme is called "Palladium".) Proprietary programs have included malicious features before, but this plan would make it universal. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

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