[TriLUG] [Fwd: [IP] Open Source TCPA driver and white papers]

[Heath Holcomb]

You need to read the white paper before you fly off the handle. TCPA has 
nothing to do with DRM or copyright protection, although that is usually 
the first thing people associate it with.

This is addressed in the white paper, as well as some of the other 
papers at http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/ .

Regards,

Heath

Disclaimer: I do work for IBM, but I don't speak for them.

Mike M wrote:
> On Friday 24 January 2003 08:32, Joey O'Doherty wrote:
> 
> TCPA worries me.  Registering your compter uniquely to authorities and large 
> mutli-national companies is as appealing as registering all your guns with 
> these same organizations.  It might be time to form the National Computer 
> Association (NCA) to act in defense of rights to privacy.  High-profile 
> attractive spokespersons are needed to get the message out.  I appears that 
> computers are more powerful than guns and that a citizens right to own and 
> bear computers is at risk.  
> 
> One thing is sure to happen.  The issues will be kept as technical as 
> possible and thereby ensure the apathy of Joe Sixpack and the NIghtly News 
> unti lit is too late.  Same strategy as DRM.
> 


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Heath Holcomb
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