Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium 345
FrzrBrn writes "Whitfield Diffie and Ronald Rivest raised concerns about Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (formerly Palladium) at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. They are (naturally) concerned about vendor lock-in and having computers turned against their owners. See the story at EE Times."
Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium (Score:0, Funny)
In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
Is this legal? (Score:5, Funny)
WinHEC (Score:2, Funny)
You know it's comming... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm not getting palladium - ever. (Score:2, Funny)
How fitting.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:3, Funny)
Palladium simply brings this 'innovation' (in the grand tradition of Microsoft 'innovation') to the U.S.
Great.
Re:Privacy (Score:1, Funny)
Hmmm... (Score:2, Funny)
Listen folks (Score:4, Funny)
Why do you think all the latest M$ software from Bill says 'My Computer' ?
Re: nice timing (Score:3, Funny)
In other news:
(hint: $ man 7 signal)
Re:Privacy (Score:5, Funny)
Neither can Microsoft
Re:Privacy (Score:3, Funny)
Do you really want me to answer that ?
Diffie? Rivest? Who? (Score:2, Funny)
Some guys with no credibility to lose, think they know better than the experienced and widely-known software professionals and security experts that created the world's most popular OS? Microsoft are the experts who came up with the idea of the world's most popular web browser, MSIE, which is so powerful that it can run a program on a web page, and is capable of secure internet connections to web sites! They make a very popular email client, and very, very powerful spreadsheet and word processor apps. They make a web server of which nearly thirty percent were completely protected from a rampaging worm a couple years ago -- think about how many thousands of computers withstood that malicious attack, and what might have happened to them if Microsoft hadn't been there with their valuable security patches.
That two nearly-anonymous net.dweebs nobody has ever heard of, would arrogantly say they know more than Gates, Balmer, and their crack team, is just preposterous.
You'll still be able to install linux on your PC (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Privacy (Score:2, Funny)
Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM