Not S0 trustworthy?

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 2, 2004, págs. 21-21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses how critics such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation worry that trusted computing can be a way for a few major manufacturers to lock out others' software or hardware, especially that of the open-source movement. In removing the fear of monitoring, direct anonymous attestation solves only one problem of socalled trusted computing. Although the Trusted Computing Group insists that implementing digital-rights management systems is not part of its plan, critics fear that trusted platforms could regard users themselves as hostile attackers.