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Differences with palladium

Posted by: gerardm on July 10, 2003 07:06 PM
When you buy this box, you buy a gamebox. Which has a single function; gaming. When you buy a computer you buy the computer functionality to be determined by you. With a computer saddled with palladium you depend on the intentions of a third party re what happens on your computer. As palladium is essentially a black box, you do not know what happens there, you have no control and it prevents you from entering some area's of your computer. The other way round is not so certain.

They call it trustworthy computing. But when they do not trust me, can I trust them? And when I can trust them now, can I trust them in the future?

With a gamebox this issue is a non issue; you do not store personal sensitive information on a gamebox.

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