[d@DCC] Stop Palladium and TCPA Now!
Ruben I Safir
ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Mon Feb 3 00:45:04 EST 2003
Your not NY Fair Use and this is just more
Wack the Mole stupidity
Ruben
On 2003.02.02 23:37 Seth Johnson wrote:
>
> New Yorkers for Fair Use Action Alert:
> --------------------------------------
>
> Tell American Megatrends and Transmeta not to make chips
> that let others control your computer!
>
> Stop Palladium and TCPA Now!
>
>
> Okay, you folks understand this issue -- AMI and Transmeta
> recently announced their intention to build TCPA technology
> into their chips. It's time to tell them that building
> chips that let others run processes on your computer in a
> protected space that lets them set whatever exclusive rights
> policies they wish, is unacceptable.
>
>
> 1) Please send your comments using the form provided below.
> Tell them not to produce their AMIBIOS8 and TM5800 chips,
> and that you will boycott any technology that enables TCPA
> and Palladium technology on your computer. Read the alert
> below for details.
>
> 3) Take up a role helping us with this and other efforts
> related to information freedom in the future. Two roles you
> can take up are to become a Press Outreach Campaigner or a
> Commentator. Simply reply to this email to show your
> interest.
>
> 2) Please forward this alert to any other interested parties
> that you know of, who would understand and see the
> importance of this issue.
>
>
> New Yorkers for Fair Use Action Alert:
> --------------------------------------
> Stop Palladium and TCPA now!
>
> Tell American Megatrends and Transmeta not to make chips
> that let others control your computer!
>
> Please use the following form to tell American Megatrends
> and Transmeta not to produce their AMIBIOS8 and TM5800
> chips, and that you will boycott any technology that enables
> TCPA and Palladium technology on your computer:
>
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/cgi-bin/nyfu/palladium
>
> What's Going On:
>
> Last week, Intel, Microsoft, the RIAA and the MPAA announced
> their intention to force Palladium and TCPA into every
> personal computer on the planet. Palladium and TCPA are a
> different kind of DRM, worse than even the most invasive of
> previously proposed "content control" systems.
>
> Palladium and TCPA would hardwire your home computer so that
> these four entities and their partners would be able to run
> processes on your computer, entirely outside your control,
> indeed, without your knowledge.
>
> Below we answer some questions about DRM, Palladium, TCPA,
> and the boycott.
>
> New Yorkers for Fair Use
>
> What is DRM?
>
> DRM is the political, legal, contractual, economic,
> hardware, and software infrastructure designed and intended
> by a loose alliance of cartels and monopolies to take away
> your right to own and privately use a computer. No full DRM
> exists in the world today, though pieces of DRM have been
> successfully enacted into law and tiny bits of DRM hardware
> and software have been placed in some home movie playing and
> recording devices. Every single piece of DRM is meant to
> help attain the objective of the anti-ownership alliance: to
> get control of every personal computer in the world.
>
> Intel and Microsoft and RIAA and MPAA, by their own
> admission, have, to date, spent billions of dollars to force
> universal DRM on the entire world. Last week these four
> reiterated their intention to force DRM into every personal
> computer on the planet:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/15/business/15PIRA.html
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980671.html
>
> For more on DRM see:
>
> http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/21/1449250.shtml?tid=19
> http://www.panix.com/~jays/what.is.drm.3
>
> What is Palladium?
>
> "Palladium" is Microsoft's name for its proposed DRM system.
> No implementation of Palladium exists today, indeed no
> complete specification of Palladium exists today, but
> certain hardware which a Palladiated operating system
> requires is about to be placed in all personal computers,
> unless we stop Microsoft and its hardware and vendor
> partners, such as Intel, American Megatrends, Transmeta,
> Dell, and CompUSA.
>
> What will Palladium do?
>
> Palladium will enable a few large corporations and
> governments to run source secret, indeed, well-encrypted,
> code on home users' machines in such a way that the home
> user cannot see, modify, or control the running code. A
> Palladiated system is under the complete control of
> Microsoft at all times. Microsoft might allow some of its
> partners to run code on your machine, but no code will run
> on a Palladiated system without Microsoft's consent. The
> mechanics are as follows: only code that has been signed
> with a special Microsoft provided key will run. Microsoft
> will retain at all times the power to revoke any other
> entity's keys. In particular, no operating system will be
> able to boot without a key from Microsoft. So if Palladium
> is forced into every home computer, there will be no more
> free software.
>
> Microsoft will be able to spy on each and every keystroke,
> and mouse movement, and send encrypted messages from your
> machine to Microsoft headquarters. Microsoft will also be
> able to examine every file on your system. Your encryption
> programs will not work against Microsoft, or any other
> entities which have full power keys from Microsoft.
>
> But surely wily crackers and freedom-loving hackers around
> the world will be able to defeat Palladium by breaking it?
>
> No. Whether or not a few hackers are able to get around some
> versions of Palladium, most people will not be able to.
> There are two reasons most people will not be able to escape
> the All Seeing Eye and Invisible Hand of Palladium. First,
> Palladium is not like the absurdly weak systems called "DRM"
> today. Palladium is both hardware and software, and the
> software is locked to the hardware in a manner completely
> different from today's weak DRM systems. The design of
> Palladium allows for defense in depth, and even one layer of
> Palladium is harder to crack than any DRM ever seen before.
> Second, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the
> United States of America, it is illegal to try to see what
> Palladium is doing. It is also illegal to modify the
> hardware of a Palladiated system. And it is a felony to sell
> advice on how to disable Palladium or its supporting
> hardware. It is hard enough today to get vendors to sell
> computers with a free operating system already installed.
> Once Microsoft and Intel have forced Palladiated hardware
> into every personal computer, it will be impossible to run a
> free OS. The very act of booting a free OS will be outlawed
> by application of the DMCA to a Palladiated computer.
>
> But there are no Palladium systems available today. So how
> can you boycott Palladium?
>
> We are boycotting the hardware that Palladium needs. Before
> Palladium is rolled out, Palladium-enabling hardware must be
> placed in most of the world's personal computers. Right now
> such hardware is being placed in computers meant for home
> and business use without the buyer being told. Our boycott
> is aimed at stopping Palladium-enabling hardware from being
> secretly forced into every personal computer in world. We
> intend to stop Palladium before we cease to own the
> computers in our own houses and offices.
>
> The main Palladium-enabling hardware is called a "TPM" for
> Trusted Platform Module. The TPM hardware will support, in
> addition to Palladium, many different systems which take
> control of the computer away from the user and give control
> to large corporations and government entities. The TCPA, the
> Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, is the standards
> organization for the TPM. The founding Alliance members are
> Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. Since 1999, the year
> TCPA was founded, about one hundred more companies have
> joined the TCPA. The Alliance has published a formal
> specification of the TPM. The TCPA's FAQ
>
> http://www.trustedcomputing.org/docs/Website_TCPA%20FAQ_0703021.pdf
>
> seeks to allay the natural suspicions of computer buyers
> about what the TPM does. Unfortunately the FAQ is inaccurate
> on the most important issues. For example, the claim is made
> that a computer with a working TPM will remain under the
> final, ultimate, and complete control of the user. But, as
> explained above, this is simply untrue.
>
> So what exactly are you doing?
>
> We refuse to buy any computer with a TPM inside and we ask
> you to refuse to buy any computer with a TPM inside. We use
> the term "TPM" to include TPM-like devices, whether in a
> separate chip, in the BIOS chip, or even in the cpu. This
> means that we ask buyers of personal computers to find out
> whether the computer has a TPM or a TPM-like device inside.
> We will shortly provide buyers of home computers with
> methods for telling whether or not a computer has a TPM
> inside.
>
> Is it possible to be more specific today?
>
> Yes. We call for a boycott of the just announced American
> Megatrends AMIBIOS8:
>
> http://www.ami.com/ami/showpress.cfm?PrID=118
>
> http://www.ami.com/products/product.cfm?ProdID=127&CatID=6&SubID=14
>
> http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/166251&tid=99
>
> http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/1430214&mode=thread&tid=137
>
> and the just announced Transmeta TM5800 cpu:
>
> http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1569201
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1719220&mode=thread&tid=161
>
> Where can I find out more about Palladium, TCPA, and DMCA?
>
> For Palladium see:
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Erja14/tcpa-faq.html
>
> http://wintermute.homelinux.org/miscelanea/TCPA%20Security.txt
>
> http://discuss.microsoft.com/SCRIPTS/WA-MSD.EXE?A2=ind0301b&L=wmtalk&T=0&O=A&P=12347
> http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25378.html
> http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0208.html#1
>
> http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=152
>
> For TCPA and the TPM see:
>
> http://www.trustedcomputing.org
>
> For the DMCA see:
>
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/analysis/dmca.must.be.repealed.xhtml
> http://anti-dmca.org
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/dmca.xhtml
>
> How do I tell these folks I don't want DRM?
>
> Just click on the URL below:
>
> http://www.nyfairuse.org/cgi-bin/nyfu/palladium
>
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