Tcpa

I'm pretty sure that a) most concerns over TCPA are thoroughly overblown, and b) Microsoft has already given up on a lot of it, or at least changed it significantly.

At the very least, it won't be a concern in the near future.

[edited by - twix on June 5, 2004 6:06:12 PM]

There is currently a lot of tin foil hat nonsense about trusted computing, mainly from the slippery slope people who take one thing, then make a serious of insane presumptions about what could be done, and assume their conclusion is just as good as the original (i.e. Police can arrest citizens without getting permission from a judge, therefore they will arrest citizens at will, therefore everyone in the country will be in jail if we let police arrest people without permission from a judge).

If you want real information try a more legitmate source, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (sort of like the ACLU of cyberspace). They have spoken on trusted computing before.