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SAJChurchey:
Bill Gates said at a Homeland Security conference that the society portrayed in Orwell's 1984 has not and will not take place w/ the aid of modern technology, but he did say that Trusted Computing is the next step in preventing privacy invasion.

I do not see how TC has anything to do w/ 1984 or how it can prevent invasion of privacy or the fascist gov't of 1984 of taking place. Those arguments are unfounded and not explained at all.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2136612,00.html

solarismka:

quote: "They've engineered privacy into it... We need people to shoulder their honest responsibilities for oversight."
--- End quote ---


So in order to "Protect my privacy" I have to give up my private information to them if the want it.  How does that protect against privacy???

Privacy for the goverment. yes!
Privacy for the people. No!  :rolleyes:

SAJChurchey:
Exactly, this is just another excuse that Willie G is giving to push Trusted Computing through. Although he never justified his argument as to why this would help our privacy.  He just thinks people will take his word for it.

BAH!!! :-P

fuck that

Never trust M$.

Refalm:

quote:From 1984 by George Orwell: "Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment."
--- End quote ---


Kinda like spyware, aka "next-generation secure computing base"...

Doctor V:
Gratz on 1000 posts Refalm.

Unfortunately, I think lots of people do believe that TC will help protect their privacy.  They think that if Bill Gates says it, it must be true.

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