Greg In The Desert

The dark side may not be our friends in Seattle, but it may turn out to be this little chip made by Intel. The chip in question (best way to get to it is to click on this link, then find the real link on the page) “builds trust into every computing transaction.”

Cory Doctorow went apeshit over this today after discovering that there is support for the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in the MacOS X that works on Intel based computers. As far as I can tell, it seems the only thing this does is ensure that this version of MacOS X doesn’t run on anything other than the developer hardware (as opposed to running on a plain jane Intel box).

This by itself isn’t that “bad”, however there is concern that this sort of integration could be used to limit everything you do on your computer (say DRM). Having every transaction on my computer under someone else’s control scares the crap out of me, and it’s even worse to consider that Apple may be the first to make this work.

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