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Neil Jensen <neil wrote:Health & Healing

Neil Jensen

Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:48:42 -0600

Urgent! Putting Your Computer Under Centralized

Control

 

What kind of monster are we feeding whenever we purchase Micro$oft

products? First, realize that Gates has bought off all three branches

of the U.S. Government with massive political contributions and are now

free to use their OS monopoly to, not only muscle their way into other

lines of business, but to take control of YOUR hard drive, its contents

and to dictate what sites YOU are able to visit on the Web.

 

From experience, i know the excuse that people use to justify

continuing to feed this monstrosity. It almost always takes the form of

" Gee, i have so much money invested in my computer equipment that i

can't afford to switch to another platform. " When upgrading to a new

computer, it comes out as " I have so much money invested in software

and peripherals that i must upgrade to another Windows-based computer. "

The fact is that most peripherals will work with other platforms and

all that is necessary is to download drivers from the manufacturer's

Website. True, a lot of software will have to be replaced but it is my

experience that it will have to be upgraded in order to work with the

new M$ OS anyway.

 

I beg you all to read the following article and ponder the

ramifications of Palladium, which is Micro$oft's latest attempt to

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

 

From http://www.IndyMedia.Com

 

The Beginning of the End of Freedom on the Internet

 

On Monday, July 1 [almost a year ago], 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

[intel & AMD are in on this] 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.

 

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FWIW, Apple Computer has stated that they will not buy into Palladium.

 

--

Neil Jensen: neil www.sumeria.net

From the New Sumerian Dictionary - Politics:

Poli: A prefix meaning many.

Tics: Small blood-sucking insects.

 

 

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