Internet: From the NYT, when Bill Gates discusses trusted computing, does he even remember 1984? Personal computers are tools of empowerment, not intellectual property management:
Microsoft denies that it is hatching an elaborate scheme to deploy an ultra-secret hardware system simply to protect its software and Hollywood’s digital content. The company also says the new system can help counter global cybercrime without creating the repressive ‘Big Brother’ society imagined by George Orwell in ‘1984.’
Microsoft is committed to ‘working with the government and the entire industry to build a more secure computing infrastructure here and around the world,’ Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman, told a technology conference in Washington on Wednesday. ‘This technology can make our country more secure and prevent the nightmare vision of George Orwell at the same time.’
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