On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:44:06 MST, Scott Chasin <scott(_at_)mxlogic(_dot_)com>
said:
Does a post-Palladium world provide another perspective on the
successful execution of SMTP-NG? Is the TCPA (Microsoft) vision of
filtering out unsigned messages relevant to the successful execution of
a new protocol?
"Microsoft claims that Palladium will stop spam, viruses and just about
every other bad thing in cyberspace - if so, then the antivirus
companies, the spammers, the spam-filter vendors, the firewall firms and
the intrusion detection folk could all have their lunch stolen."
-- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
If there's a buffer overflow in IIS, it will still quite happily execute
in the IIS security context, just as it does now. What Palladium is REALLY
for is to support DRM - so you can't open your own files unless the vendor's
app says it's OK.
Now combine Palladium with the Kazaa "all your resources are belong to us" EULA,
and you have a distributed spam engine that the user CANT TURN OFF!!
Ouch.
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