Trusted Computing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing
Trusted computing?  What the fuck?

Basically, everything will be encrypted, and only what is allowed to be run will be run, and only what is allowed to be read will be read.  The computer will be encrypted at every single segment.

EVERYTHING will be encrypted?  Doesn't that seem a bit like overkill?  I mean, encrypting people's diaries is all fine and good, but my 5th grade brother's book report too?

Can you say paranoia?

Why do we need this?

>>1
To protect the intellectual property of large companies. Why else?

If any part of it isn't encrypted, someone is going to crack or mod it. Even if it is encrypted, someone may still break it.

There are benefits to consumers, like making the lives of viruses even harder, but the real reason is IP.

I think viruses will still find their way through; there is almost always a hole.

>>2
Intellectual property is dumb.

>>4
Listen to to warez kiddie.

Trusted computer marks the new age of computers; the age in which you can actually trust your computer to do what's expected, without an infestation of viruses and an million other problems.  It'll mean almost the end of hacking entirely.

The only people who are opposed to this are those who don't want to have to pay for their software and music.  That's the only reason you all are pitching such a hissy fit.

fuck you

>>6
It`s not so hard to decrypt something, takes some time yes, but it`s always a way around :)

>>1
Privately: Because "they" watch you, charlie! OMG! The truth is out there!

Corporately: To further assfuck customers.


>>2
Since information must be decrypted at some point otherwise it's useless, there's always a point where it's unencrypted. Encryption only delays the inevitable.

>>6
Hahahahahahahahaha. You are either trolling, or stoned (or you work for r1aa). Simple facts straight: 1. This is equally prone to bugs. 2. Specification mismatch doesn't have anything to do with how much do you encrypt anything. 3. If you get "an infestation of viruses", you really are a luser. 4. Suggest Googling for a reliable definition of hacking. It's not what you saw on TV or that movie, lawl. 5. Some of the people who are opposed to this are those who want to keep control of their machines, because in Mother Russia machines control you, but in free world, they shouldn't.

>>9 "Corporately: To further assfuck customers."

I hate it when people say stuff like that. It implies that customers aren't customers by choice. The free market'll work itself if you let it.

I don't trust my computer at all. That's why I always wear a condom whenever I use it.

>>10
They'll make it illegal to sell equipment without TC chips installed.