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Originally posted by Sir Krustin:
Frankly, I don't see hardware issues entering into it. This is an o/s issue, and I can't see how an extra feature in the hardware can force an o/s to deny access to specific data on your system, especially if that o/s is designed to ignore said security
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By denying the OS access to the hardware unless it can supply a palladium key.
They could charge a monthly license fee on your bloody *hardware* with this thing. Now Im freaked.
In fact, if an application is palladium-compliant, the OS has zero say in it, you cant decrypt the application to run it without a palladium chip and a license.
So Linux itself probably wont do it - it would be hard to implement in open source, and is against the general linux philosophy. But individual applications are another matter. Not everything under Linux is open-source.
Palladium is a serious threat. I hope the US government is competent enough to see what power it will give to M$ (And lets face it, M$ are the ones behind this. Intel and AMD are cooperating, but M$ are the ones making megabucks from it) and stop it.