Trecherous Computing lol

I'm writing a debate on Trusted Computing, and after remembering a flash that's more than likely been bumped off of 4chan's /f/, I decided to ack world4ch about it. Anyone have links to good rants or articles on TC that would provide for some solid pros and cons about the issue? You guys could also throw in what you think about TC, as I can quote discussion groups.


mewtnote (lol): I was about to write this on Jackie T. and the Violence in Video Games baloney, but some professor who's much more important than me has already done it. (Very well, I might add.)

Required reading is http://www.againsttcpa.com/

As a person I'm against it, mostly because it's very much a huge step to make anybody able to "use" computers regardless of wether they know anything about them or not. I would think of this as a good thing, but it imposes huge restrictions on people who know how to do things. On a "trusted" computer I may no longer run code that hasn't been screened and approved. This means I can't even write a small script to increase readability in my .txt files, I won't be able to make a small program, I won't be able to go from 0.0.1 to 0.0.2 without letting an authority, which I do not trust, inspect it first. Unprofessional programming would come to a complete halt, and the Open Source community would die and we'd never have anything like Firefox's numerous extensions or VLC ever again. Developing software would become so costly only people connected to corporations would be able to do it.

Well, you can run un-screened code in a "sandbox", but it won't be able to write to disk, access anything or do anything. You won't be able to study it's real effects or write advanced software. What could you do then? You could use an ages old computer from before the TA-era, which won't be able to connect to the internet because no computer will connect to an un-"trusted" computer.