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Microsoft: Palladium Fears Are Based On Rumor, Speculation | |
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| Time: 08:34 EST/13:34 GMT | News Source: CRN | Posted By: Todd Richardson | ||
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Criticisms of Microsoft's Palladium security initiative are rumors and speculation about technology that won't even be ready to hit the market for years, the company said. Palladium, formally known as Next Generation Secure Computing Base, is technology that Microsoft says will make computers trustworthy. It will use a security processor attached to a PC motherboard, along with a subsystem of the Windows operating system, called the Nexus, to allow users to create a highly secure virtual space to store sensitive data and run sensitive applications. That's what Microsoft says. But critics suspect a hidden agenda to prevent PCs from running Linux and other competing operating systems, force application developers to pay fees to Microsoft to write Windows applications, and gain control over users' data. Ross Anderson, a member of the computer science faculty member at the University of Cambridge, England, said that Palladium is Microsoft's plan to make it expensive for users to switch from Microsoft applications. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at 3/31/2003 8:58:35 AM |
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I'm more inclinded to believe the critics. I just don't trust Microsoft to do what's right for the OWNER of the computer.
TL |
| #2 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 3/31/2003 10:57:06 AM |
| They've said all along that you can disable the feature. |
| #3 By 2459 (24.170.151.19) at 3/31/2003 11:30:32 AM |
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Palladium, formally known as Next Generation Secure Computing Base, is technology that Microsoft says will make computers trustworthy.
Should read: Next Generation Secure Computing Base, formally known as Palladium, is technology that Microsoft says will make computers trustworthy. NGSCB FAQ: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/NGSCB.asp ----------From FAQ-------------- Third, unlike “anti-piracy” proposals endorsed by some content owners, no nexus-aware application can censor, monitor, or disable another nexus-aware application—or in fact any software running on a user's machine—without the user's permission. This central principle of NGSCB—that machine owners, whether they are individual consumers or organizations, are in complete control of their machines and the programs they run—is in stark contrast with some current proposals that would mandate that all machines include monitoring systems that could arbitrarily disable content or programs. Enhancements to Windows under the NGSCB architecture have no mechanism for filtering content, nor do they provide a mechanism for proactively searching the Internet for "illegal" content. This post was edited by n4cer on Monday, March 31, 2003 at 11:33. |
| #4 By 2459 (24.170.151.19) at 3/31/2003 12:00:46 PM |
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Just read the article. The critics are pretty stupid.
"The object of the exercise for Microsoft is that Palladium will make it harder to switch from Office to OpenOffice," said Anderson, who holds the post Reader in Security Engineering at the university. "All the documents you create in Office will be likely to sealed to keys tied to the platform and tied to Microsoft technology." Seeing how Office 2003 can output XML files that would be used primarily for sharing data (or specific views of that same data) between multiple apps and/or businesses, etc., the only thing that would keep OpenOffice from reading the files is failure of the OpenOffice team to make a compatible XML procesor. The Slashdot fears are covered in my previous post (mainly the FAQ link). Mario sums thse critics fears up well: "It is a myth, with no basis in fact for anything that Microsoft has said, done, expressed, intimated or even hinted at," Juarez said. |
| #5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 3/31/2003 2:22:47 PM |
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Criticism is important, however I'm less critical of criticism towards companies because the free market allows us to make a choice. If I don't like what Microsoft sells, I won't buy it.
In this particular case the ABMers pretty much discredited themselves by making a large number of highly spurious claims against Palladium. They're no longer worthy of response. It's like people claiming the moon shots were fake, it's that ridiculous. |
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