Ed Felten: Schoen vs. Stallman on Trusted Computing
Ed Felten, Freedom To Tinker: “[Richard Stallman in Can you trust your computer?] implies strongly that the [CBDTPA] would mandate the use of Palladium. [Seth Schoen in his weblog] disagrees, saying that he is “not convinced that something like Palladium is the infrastructure contemplated by the CBDTPA.” Here I don’t know who is right. The CBDTPA is cleverly constructed so that it doesn’t say what it is mandating – it leaves that to be decided later, either by the [FCC] or by a vaguely-specified industry consortium.”