"Palladium" and TCPA - Chairman Bill in China

[Quentin Campbell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel H Horns [mailto:horns@t-online.de]=20
> Sent: 29 June 2002 21:20
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Cc: Markus Kuhn
> Subject: Re: "Palladium" and TCPA=20
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> On 29 Jun 2002, at 20:04, Markus Kuhn wrote:
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> > There is nothing devious or dangerous about this. It is an=20
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> > ingredient in any practically useable content protection mechanism,=20
> > and it would have been foolish for the designers not to add a=20
> > revokation mechanism for content keys.
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> > > This will clearly get used to suppress porn,
> > > then libel, then goodness knows all what
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> > How? Neither TCPA nor Palladium contain any mechanism whatsoever=20
> > preventing you from photographing yourself or Tony naked=20
> and posting=20
> > the result here on the list. You know as well as I do that such=20
> > technology is well beyond the state of the art ...
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> Markus,
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> Hmmm... on the level of pure hardware technology you are right, IMHO.
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> The political key point might, however, be a different one.
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[snip]

Given the potential in TCPA/Palladium for more effective control by
goverments of PC & Internet usage, a more cynical observer than me might
wonder whether Bill Gates is planning to pull off the biggest marketing
coup ever.

Will China provide wholesale endorsement of Palladium based MS systems
for sale in the country, perhaps even mandating their use?

Quentin