{"id":440,"date":"2006-11-24T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/440"},"modified":"2006-11-24T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:18:05","slug":"were-from-microsoft-and-were-here-to-help-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/440","title":{"rendered":"We’re From Microsoft And We’re Here To Help You…"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Slashdot…<\/a><\/p>\n

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"Just because Richard Stallman is paranoid<\/a> doesn’t mean Microsoft’s not out to get you. For a hint about the possible end-game of Microsoft’s Trusted Computing Initiative<\/a>, check out the patent application published Thanksgiving Day for Trusted License Removal<\/a>, in which Microsoft describes how to revoke rights to render based on ‘who the user is, where the user is located, what type of computing device or other playback device the user is using, what rendering application is calling the copy protection system, the date, the time, etc.’ So much for Microsoft’s you-should-have-control assurances<\/a>."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If it wasn’t for Microsoft I wouldn’t have the job and the house and the life I have today.  But it’s this sort of utter betrayal of the Personal Computing revolution, and it’s promise of power to the individual, that’s the reason I want as little to do with them now as possible.  If all you glean from this is that Microsoft wants tighter control over piracy you need to think about it a little more carefully.  What this is about, stripped of all the careful rhetoric about security, is taking control of your computer, what you can do with it, away from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Slashdot… "Just because Richard Stallman is paranoid doesn’t mean Microsoft’s not out to get you. For a hint about the possible end-game of Microsoft’s Trusted Computing Initiative, check out the patent application published Thanksgiving Day for Trusted License Removal, in which Microsoft describes how to revoke rights to render based on ‘who the user […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-computer-geeking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}