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Re: full-disk subversion standards released

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Fri Jan 30 13:39:58 2009

To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, smb@cs.columbia.edu
In-reply-to: <E1LSPh5-0004JC-TS@wintermute01.cs.auckland.ac.nz> 
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:22:37 -0800
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>

If it comes from the "Trusted Computing Group", you can pretty much
assume that it will make your computer *less* trustworthy.  Their idea
of a trusted computer is one that random unrelated third parties can
trust to subvert the will of the computer's owner.

	John

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