Ryan Ware wrote: >On 5/10/05, Richard Hoffbeck <rwh at visi.com> wrote: ><snip> > > >>If you look at the requirements of 'trusted computing' there is no way >>that it can be good for OSS. For it to be effective it has to be >> >> > >Am I mistaken, or didn't Linus just state that trusted computing was >an idea whose time has come? > > >I think most of the open source community has taken a rather Ned Lud >view point on this whereas I think it will be more of a tide that >raises the level of all the ships (Linux, Unix, Windows, etc) It >might be a little more work for everyone, but it will get done. > > > I'm guilty of misusing 'trusted'. I think Linus is talking about what is usually called a trusted os with mandatory access controls and the likes. These assign levels of trust to different users, processes, interfaces, etc. but they tend to be self-contained within a system. When MS talks about 'trusted' they are talking about locking down the net so that only trusted systems can talk to trusted systems, and a trusted system won't talk to untrusted systems - and of course they get to define what constitutes a trusted system. --rick