[KLUG Members] DRM in every Samsung machine

[John Bridleman]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 11:31, Jamie McCarthy wrote:
> At my KLUG talk "Your Rights Online" a couple years ago, I
> mentioned that the BIOS was one way for Digital Rights Management
> to work its way into the computer.  DRM is aka Trusted Computing,
> aka Treacherous Computing, aka whatever Microsoft wants to call
> "taking over the world" this week.
> 
> Today's news is that all Samsung computers will now ship with the
> Phoenix "Core Managed Environment" BIOS, which implements this at
> a level Linux can't touch:
> 
>     http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/16/1443252

Seems IBM has been using something similar for a while now. They also
have a linux driver for it. Very good reading here:
- http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/

Replies to the advocacy list please. 8-)
-- 
John Bridleman / www.bridleman.org