Re: Sysadmins

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 20:25 +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I am not aware of any provision in *any* variation of TC that would
>    preclude you from installing your own boot loader or operating
>    system.  Can you provide a citation of such a mechanism, or can you
>    explain how you envision that this might be enforced by the
>    mechanisms that have actually been proposed?
> 
> The hardware can refuse to run anything that hasn't been authorised by
> the manufcuter of treacherous computing hardware.

This is an issue that I have actually tracked very closely.

To my knowledge, there is no such feature in any currently proposed or
implemented TC hardware. Can you please identify a specification that
supports your assertion?


shap