Trusted computing
I still haven't written up notes from the second Microsoft meeting or from the TCPA or LaGrande meetings. (I'm sorry about that, because I know people want to read them.) But I did get interviewed for, and quoted in, a pretty good Associated Press story about trusted computing.
Seth Schoen, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said incompatibility is the biggest threat posted by the trusted-computing initiatives."I don't think anyone can absolutely compel you to do anything in particular," he said. "What they can do is create an incompatibility or refuse to deal with you unless you meet a particular condition."
I tried to stress that nuance in the interview, and the interviewer reproduced it pretty accurately -- although it might be less significant than I've made it out to be (in the sense that the pressure to conform to a condition might be so strong that it would be difficult for many people to refuse).
I liked the AP story, though it's not technical. I gave a longer interview to Technology Review, which is doing a story which I hope is going to be a bit more technical.
I'm likely to start a new blog at EFF pretty soon containing my discussions of EFF-related issues and news items. (Once I do that, I'll link from here to what I write there, but probably move much of the actual writing to that new forum.)
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