Stallman calls for end to ‘war on sharing’

GNU founder warns of threats to a free digital society.

 

Yep, the debate over "Trusted Computing" has been going on for years. While it does have security benefits, the dangerous outweigh the pros, imo. As Stallman says, TPM gives a vendor the ability to control everything that goes on on a PC. We are seeing perhaps a new incarnation of this with Intel's recent announcement that they may be planning on implementing this on the CPU itself.

Although several years old, Stallman wrote a good piece about the dangers of TPM chips here. Also Ross Anderson has a good, and level headed, FAQ on the pros and cons of TPM here. (Written in 2003).

 

Thanks for the links chronomatic.