On 10-May-2007, Patrick Ohnewein wrote:
I don't see why we can't gain similar exposure of the threats of treacherous computing -- but *only* if we make our actions match our words, and reject it as clearly and consistently as we reject DRM.
Do you think that preventing the diffusion of TPM chips can be gained by convincing all members of the Free Software community not to buy new hardware and ignore all new devices?
That's nothing like "reject it as clearly and consistently as we reject DRM". You're talking about silence. I'm talking about making the problems clearly and widely known, while making our actions observably mesh with our words, as we've done with DRM.