#20yrsago #OwnerOverride: a proposal to fix #TrustedComputing https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7055

#10yrsago #RobFord stripped of powers https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/rob-ford-councillors-strip-mayor-of-certain-powers/article_c531a981-ab9a-5818-abef-83dc0ba6cf89.html

#5yrsago #GildedAge watch: America’s firefighting is turning into a two-tier system, with private services for the 1% https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-history-private-firefighting/575887/

#5yrsago One year later: kids #SmartWatches are still a privacy and security dumpster fire https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/consumer-advice-kids-gps-tracker-watch-security/

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Now, these beneficial and sinister uses can be teased apart. When the Palladium team first presented its research, my colleague #SethSchoen proposed an "#OwnerOverride": a modification of Trusted Computing that would let the computer's owner override the TPM:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021004125515/http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/2002-07-05.html

This override would introduce its own risks, of course.

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