Re: awareness + flexibility + security

[Martin Schoenbeck]

Bas Wijnen wrote:

> What does this chip do?  It allows people to check that a remote computer is
> running unchanged code.  In other words, it allows people to restrict changing
> of code ("if you change your code, you cannot use my service").  I do not see
> any other use of the chip.

And exactly that is something, I perhaps want to know, if I put my 
business on a remote webserver. I can't see the evil then.

> Now in a case like ATM machines, this may be acceptable.  But it isn't
> acceptable for GNU.  The whole reason GNU was started was to prevent this and
> to allow people to change the code they use.

So if my webserver provider wants to modify the code, he may do so. I 
then want a copy of it, so I could - at least possibly - check, what he 
did, and that it is *this* code, which is running on the webserver. I 
again can't see the evil.

> No no, this isn't about copying music, it's about making modifications to
> software.  I also think that DRM is a very bad idea, but that's not what I was
> trying to state.

You are not hindered, to modify software. You are just hindered, to 
fake, you didn't.

Martin