have you guys heard of tcpa? If not you might want to look into it. TCPA
is something microsoft is proposing which would make it so only programs
that were signed with special encrypted keys could be run on a computer.
They are also trying to make it so that it’s illegal to sell any computer
that is not tcpa compliant. They claim this will stop piracy, hacking,
viruses and even email spam. WTF email spam?? How does encrypted exe’s
fix that at all?
it sounds like just some crazy MS idea doesnt it? Kidna like the idea back
of having each CPU have a unique ID number they could use to track people?
Well guess what…today microsoft released the source code to help other
OS’s become compliant as mandated by the courts. They are proposing 5 years
in prison for selling non tcpa compliant computers…so in 5 years if you
sell your current computer you can go to jail for 5 years…wtf??
also, this fucks with ameteur/small business coders like many of us out
there. Specificly it messes with low level coders. I have been working
on a game now for almost a year which is a generic 3d multiplayer engine.
My plan was to make a scripting language that translated into native machine
code bytecodes for efficiency and dynamicism, but my dream is now dead,
since most likely machine code will be encrypted in ram. Buffer overflows
will still exist causing unexpected results. Email spam will still exist.
Maybe someone will crack this algorithm. We can only hope.
This will also mess with the open sourced community since only exe’s signed
with this encrypted key will be able to run…you wont readily be able
to recompile your kernal or any other program you have.
for more info check out these sites:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1642
this makes me wonder if hacking could be protected by the right to bear
arms. Grr…this makes me so pissed off, i hope they dont get away with
this. Compilers could become a thing of the past.
-Atrix> ----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:40 PM
Subject: RE: [SDL] Umm…look at this guysMaybe because this mailing list also is on the newsgroup server
news.gmane.orgJust an idea !!!
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From: sdl-admin at libsdl.org [mailto:sdl-admin at libsdl.org]On Behalf Of Sam
Lantinga
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 7:47 AM
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Subject: Re: [SDL] Umm…look at this guysOn Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 02:01:31PM -0600, Alexus Floa wrote:
I’m 20/F with a webcam - come watch me for free!
ROFL
We finally rate a spammer! Hmm, this is probably not a good thing.
I can’t even tell how the mail got through the spam filter. The address
isn’t subscribed … it should be bouncing!See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment
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