Palladium + Microsoft = Devil?
I started reading this article because of the title, "The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea". An American Songbook Standard by Harold Arlen, or at least a Jazz standard (check out some of it's company in that category...woa, learn those and you've got the words...it's up to you to speak 'em). I digress into TNJT territory...Jazz fans continue reading at your own risk.
It is an article about Paladium, Microsoft's new copyright enforcement solution or something like that. It's been getting a lot of press and linkage lately, but I haven't dove in. Which is the reason for the "something like that". I know more now..."Palladium might provide substantial security against these attacks, because it will require that all code be digitally signed before it can run. This will be enforced at the hardware level, to reduce the likelihood of serious implementation bugs. This model could plausibly eliminate attacks whereby low-level code might be erroneously executed by a privileged application."
That seems pretty clear. Now for the gist of the article (which must relate to the title somehow as I speculated in the headline...maybe I'm too obvious, but I haven't gotten past the first section yet and may never, knowing me):
Palladium cannot protect us from most security threats -- and its aim may be to eliminate open source software on commodity hardware.
Commodity hardware: Any digital device at home. At work. In your car. In your pocket. Only Microsoft-approved software?
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