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> Could TCP explain The Crash?, No MS, Intel, IBM, HP or the other one
Botch
post Nov 25 2004, 07:37 PM
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Trusted Computing Platform basically hands control of all your documents, software, I/O devices and peripherals over to a "responsible" company. Somebody had the audacity to initially explain it as follows at it got be thinking about 2 years later.

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Imagine a paedophile has taken some images of children and posted them to the internet.  Sure, identified sites can be closed down, but only after other perverts have downloaded and copied them.  With this new system each file has an unique originator code and can be traced, even after the file has been copied and renamed.  Once the paedophiles unqiue ID has been recovered from the file, this can be broadcast to every computer within the TCP environment to delete every file that has the ID code.  Even if the images are kept off-line, as soon as the computer is on-line the files will be deleted.  With TCP only accepting TCP compliant hardware, hackers can also have their equipment traced and then shut-down remotely.
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Every file is tagged with a unique thousand+ bit identifier code. Your computers will not accept data without this identifier code, most of your computer components have an equivalent of their own cranial bomb (like mobile phones). Once into the system it would be very impractical to get out as your data cannot be removed from the TCP environment without major hassle if at all.

Now, if a virus took control of this environment many businesses would crash and burn. Home users and SOHOs would deffinately suffer as they are always shat on from a great height. Even the big boys would suffer, many going to the wall and afterwards who would trust the companies that set this up?

Global crash and massive data-loss as data on computers connected to the net disappears and off-line data cannot be restored as the back-up devices have been disabled. Not a total loss as drives can be re-built (many back-up tapes do fail when restored from a different drive), CDs & DVDs can be unerasable, and lastly there always personal knowledge and hard copy.

What do you think?
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- Botch   Could TCP explain The Crash?   Nov 25 2004, 07:37 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Given that I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs would di...   Nov 25 2004, 07:49 PM
- - Gilthanis   Also not to mention tape backups can have deleted ...   Nov 25 2004, 11:27 PM
- - hobgoblin   yea, its incredible how far back something can be ...   Nov 26 2004, 01:01 AM

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