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IP: FYI my seminar course at CMU this fall
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 05:07:58 -0400
90-921, Digital Rights Management -- Technology, Policy and Societal Issues 12 units ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Last month there was a authorized newspaper article on the Palladium Trusted Operating system from Microsoft. This effort was complemented with the activities of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) toward producing the hardware support mechanism that supported, among other applications, MS future software. In April 2002, EE Times said about the challenges facing the effort: "Those challenges include plugging dozens of known security holes in the PC; defining just what security means for the PC; igniting demand for security features among cost-conscious PC users; avoiding clashes with government agencies, privacy advocates and consumers who will see some security features as compromising rights; and balancing the drive for greater security with the push to extend PCs to larger, more open business and home nets." This seminar will focus on the technology underlying the efforts and the work that preceded these highly controversial efforts; on the societal, legal and commercial issues that are raised by the enabled mechanisms -- such as digital rights management, protection of software against unauthorized modification etc. The source material will be from publicly available documentation and invited guests who have been involved as advocates or critics of the effort. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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