{"id":1009,"date":"2005-02-06T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T08:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2005-02-06T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2005-02-06T08:35:07","slug":"losing_control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Losing Control of Your PC &#8211; Thanks to Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/200502\/msg00008.html\">Paul Biggar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It seems that horrible day has come when my computer will no longer truly be mine. Since about 2000 we&#8217;ve heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=Palladium+Microsoft\">Palladium<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22trusted+computing%22\">Trusted Computing<\/a> waiting in the wings for the day that I can no longer trust my computer, and my computer demands that it can trust me.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Digital+Rights+Management%22\">Digital Rights (restrictions) Management<\/a> means that you can no longer play media which is not yours. Or, in its current implementation, you cannot use something which you have bought, in a way which you are legally entitled to play it, because the content owners do not wish it. Once <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=dell\">Dell<\/a> and others start shipping these chips, and <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Microsoft+Windows%22\">Windows<\/a> provides for it, then everything must be DRM, and non-DRM applications and hardware are rendered useless.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>What can you do<\/b>?  Support the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\">EFF<\/a> and perhaps, buy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">mac<\/a> while it&#8217;s still open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Biggar: It seems that horrible day has come when my computer will no longer truly be mine. Since about 2000 we&#8217;ve heard about Palladium and Trusted Computing waiting in the wings for the day that I can no longer trust my computer, and my computer demands that it can trust me. Digital Rights (restrictions) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}