Re: Theft of Secrets (was: Re: Design principles and ethics)

[Bas Wijnen]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:36:49AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> (Well, with the exception that we don't support the TPM, which
> theoretically could help in the unlikely constellation that you trust
> the hardware manufacturer and the OS vendor more than the person who
> installed the OS.

This isn't unlikely at all.  But even if you do, it results in ethical issues
which are very real, and it doesn't solve any big problems.  For me that's
enough reason not to support it.  But that reason depends on the observation
that there are no big use cases, which is why we are trying to find some.
(Note that this is not the same try as looking for use cases of non-trivial
confinement, although it is related.)

> But AIUI this issue is pretty much orthogonal to the
> confinement/encapsulation discussion.)

Yes.

Thanks,
Bas

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