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Saturday, December 28, 2002 5:39 PM

[ascendedmasters1111] Palladium

 

 

The Beginning of the End of Freedom on the Internet

 

On Monday, July 1, Microsoft announced plans for a new product known as

'Palladium' that it claims will assure 'security' and 'copyright protection' on

the internet. Advocates for freedom of _expression and privacy, though, point

out that the processor-based digital authentication system will enable Microsoft

to effectively remote-control home PCs. If the system becomes widely adopted,

people will be forced to buy Palladium-enabled computers.

 

Palladium is only roughly outlined, but what is known indicates that it is

almost certain to put an end to Open Source software as we know it-i.e., Linux.

Palladium would also give Microsoft unlimited access to your personal internet

history, email history, email encryption keys and even the contents of your hard

drive. It would also enable centrally-controlled, hardware-based blocking of

websites that it deems 'insecure' and hence 'non-Palladium-approved'.

 

" It's the ultimate in an Orwellian presentation of the issue, " says Chris

Hoofnagle, the legislative counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

" You dress up an invasive tool as a helpful one. "

 

Once this sort of external control is enabled, it is not only Microsoft that

would have what is, in effect, complete control of your computer. For example,

if the government were to label an organization as 'terrorist', a 'threat to

national security', 'illegal', or 'socially inappropriate', that organization's

website could be blocked to anyone with a Palladium-enabled computer.

Non-Palladium-enabled computers would be identified as 'insecure' and have

limited or no access to the internet.

 

Sites like Indymedia that feature creative and radical individual expressions

could be marginalized and kept from public view. Likewise, anyone who has

unauthorized music or software on their machine would not be able to play/use

it. If the government does not like what you are doing on your computer, they

can wipe your hard-drive and lock you out of it.

 

The internet has become a powerful tool for individuals to communicate, educate

themselves, organize and oppose centralized domination. This initiative is a

primary component in seizing the internet from the individual and putting it

under centralized control. [ Read more... ]

 

 

 

http://victoria.indymedia.org/features/technology/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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