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Microsoft Palladium - We seriously challenge your intelligence!
August 9th 2002, 15:28 BST by The_Joker Remember when Microsoft announced Hailstorm - "All your personal information are belong to us"? Nobody was interested because it was too risky, and people did not trust Microsoft with their personal information, let alone the fact that Microsoft would actually have full control over it. Microsoft basically had to forget about implementing Hailstorm for a while. Then came .NET - "You know, we have to admit we don't have the slightest clue as to what .NET really is or should be. In fact, we have to re-think this one. I give my company a C for its .NET understanding and implementation. - Bill Gates and co.". If you can remember these two Microsoft initiatives, combine them together, add a security smokescreen to it, and you have an important part of Palladium. When Microsoft realized they could not convince people about the benefits of Hailstorm, they went back to the drawing board. And they came with a very smart solution. I imagine one Microsoft exec probably said "Hey, it's not the end-users who have to decide here, it's the major players in the digital world, like hardware manufacturers, music companies, Hollywood etc. If we manage to convince them, so that they accept the technology and implement it, the end-users will have no choice." So instead of targeting end-users, they reworked the Hailstorm plan, and are now targeting businesses. And in order to do that, they have to offer these businesses something that they can't refuse, and badly need right now: Introducing Digital Rights Management, an important part of Palladium. This technology will finally give the Music Industry and Hollywood what they want, full control over their properties, not to mention giving Microsoft what they want, full control over their software. To be as secure as possible, Microsoft wants to implement this at the hardware level. Think DRM-enabled CPUs, Soundcards, CD-ROMS, you name it. In the future you will not be able to play your MP3's on the next version of Windows, currently codenamed Longhorn, the first version of Windows scheduled to ship with Palladium. Why not? Because the OS and/or the hardware you're running will detect that you have no rights to play those MP3s, and that you need to purchase the rights first. And when you do, Microsoft and its partners will be able to track exactly how long you may listen to a specific song, or use a specific application, until you have to purchase rights again. That's right, what works for the Music Industry will also work for Microsoft. Surprised? It's what they have been working towards the last 2 years. Subscription-based software. With Palladium it'll be easy to implement this. For example when you'll want to use Office, you'll need to buy a subscription for the Office applications you want to use, and Microsoft will be able to shut down the service when the subscription expires. Remember Product Activation? Product Activation was essentially just a preview and a way for Microsoft to already let end-users realize it would begin to enforce its licensing policies. Palladium will be many times worse, it will enable Microsoft to unleash astronomical amounts of massive shitfuckery on end-users. And all this tracking of your active subscriptions, your purchased rights etc. would have to be done by Microsoft and its Partners, you didn't think it would be managed locally on your computer did you - no way, that would enable hackers to easily crack it! Does this begin to ring a couple of bells? Perhaps detonate a few bombs as well? If you ask me, it sounds a lot like project Hailstorm - "All your personal information are belong to us." Microsoft and its partners will have to set up systems to manage al this data for all the millions of users out there. There will be _no_ avoiding it, you will have to set up a Passport account with your information so that Microsoft and its partners can track your account information online. And again, Microsoft will have full control. I don't think they will settle for less. Why not? Enter the .NET initiative, whatever that is, since not even its creators seem to know. A secure operating system will have to be able to control what is safe to run, and what not. This can only be done if the OS itself 'knows' what the code is trying to do or access. This is possible in .NET due to managed code - code that runs based on permissions and security settings. If the OS detects that code in a program is trying to access resources that it does not have permissions for, it basically blocks the code from execution. That alone is not enough. To be really secure, Microsoft will probably require software to be digitally signed. Much like with drivers on Windows 2000 and XP, but you may not have the option to run unsigned software. Signed software will make it very difficult to impossible to crack software because the OS will be able to check (at the hardware level for maximum security) if the executable matches the criteria in the encrypted signature, which could be (a combination of) the size of the executable, the CRC checksum, etc. This could also mean extra pains for developers, or having to jump through extra hoops to get their software working on the computers of end-users. And if you haven’t realized this yet, all of this will require the Internet. You will need an Internet connection to be able to do most of the things you can do today without an Internet connection. How else will the OS check your subscriptions and purchased digital rights managed somewhere else in the world on Microsoft systems? How else will the OS download encrypted digital signatures for software you’re trying to run on your PC? This is where web services and XML will play an important role also. And for those who don’t know, that’s also part of .NET. Although there are benefits to all of this, end-users will have to give up a lot of their freedom, and will be forced to give a lot of control to Microsoft and its partners. This will change the world of personal computing as we know it, without a doubt. How the market will react to the implementation of Palladium remains to be seen. Will consumers instead look for hardware that's not Palladium enabled? Will those hardware companies be making the big bucks, effectively forcing other hardware companies making Palladium hardware to stop supporting Palladium? Or will there be a law or regulations that will require hardware manufacturers to make Palladium enabled hardware, or else face an industry-wide boycott? I'm interested in hearing what the rest of Planetcrap thinks of this, but me and my wang don't like it one bit. I like my freedom. And so does my wang. |
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Just finish the game. Then you can get a free tank all you want. So there.
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i use the cheat to let the whole city fight eachother, then call all the cops, get myself a tank and start playing terminator in a futuristic war-world. it rocks. Joker, Ph.D. Procedural Assholian Behaviour, Pedophilosopher
- All your ass are belong to my wang Jafd. Prepare to are penetration. "I fart in THX." - Sgt_Hulka |
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Maybe. Mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe. He's a squish-headed hippy. That's all there is to it.
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Er... Maybe, in regards to Warren's ponderings. He's a squish-headed hippy. That's all there is to it.
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Good police holdout areas -- the casino, the parking garage...and suprisingly, the middle struts of the callahan bridge. They're really too dumb to get you there - of course you need ammo to get the copters shot down. "When you have a job like me, you'll miss every summer" - H.S.
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They're too dumb to get you most anywhere. The top of any random building combined with a supply of ammo will suffice if you're just looking to cause shit and keep them upset. "It's pretty common for pussies, dumbasses, and their families to blame their problems on vague influences like the media and society. The truth is, fuck you."
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Eh, it's not like I own a PS2... I was just at a friends houseup all night playing seeing what rank was beyond 7000 points. And I was unemployed then too, heh. iamelectro
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And you had a clutch of eggs in your cranium. He's a squish-headed hippy. That's all there is to it.
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At this moment, I am holding my wang. Joker, Ph.D. Procedural Assholian Behaviour, Pedophilosopher
- All your ass are belong to my wang Jafd. Prepare to are penetration. "I fart in THX." - Sgt_Hulka |
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AHAHAHA i just have to share this with the rest of you, I was just watching tv and there's a movie on with this guy who played in Robocop 1 as the executive who came up with the Robocop project, and I see this guy and I think "huh? why is he in this movie, didn't he die in robocop??" and then a second later a realize "oh wait, it's movies, it's possible." I'm telling you guys, i'm totally losing it. Joker, Ph.D. Procedural Assholian Behaviour, Pedophilosopher
- All your ass are belong to my wang Jafd. Prepare to are penetration. "I fart in THX." - Sgt_Hulka |
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Still don't care. He's a squish-headed hippy. That's all there is to it.
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But they're GREEN EGGS! now for some ham! *splortch* iamelectro
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I'm dissapointed about the ranks. I'm well over 10K and I'm still a fucking boss. I think 5K is the highest rank, but I forget. The airport's a good place to run circles with them, so long as you crash near a form of transportation. May the end of the world be warm and smoldering.
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Why use a tank at all? Because it's loads of fun to fly around the islands with the tank. |
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I prefer using the small airplane. Harder, but easier to land on top of things. Kinda cool to go between islands, skimming the water, not to mention flying between the supports of the bridges. "When you have a job like me, you'll miss every summer" - H.S.
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First daring plane escape I made was cinematic. I didn't know about the "let it idle" trick at the time, so I had to actually wrestle the bastard across the river into staunton. I landed it RIGHT on the edge of the barrier on the under-highway on staunton. It was a kodak moment. May the end of the world be warm and smoldering.
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umm.. why not keep winxp installed? or will it be deleted by billy himself? |
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or whatever OS you have... |
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I am an asshole. |
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