Re: Trust

On Oct 16, 2013, at 15:27 , Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm> wrote:

>> It's hard to read about "Trusted" Computation in the W3C.
>> The real meaning of such a trap of words is "betraying computation",
>> because it betrays the user and obeys others (the vendor or the OS
>> developer). The most terrific thing about that is: we have already that
>> technology in most of the current hardware.
>> 
>> I think it is evil to bring here such a technology.
> 
> I agree, but for the purposes of this discussion it doesn't have to be
> *evil*, it just has to be inimical to the W3Cs goals and mission.  Which
> it is.


It supports some (making the web the place for online content) and is in tension with others.  It's not an open and shut case.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 16 October 2013 22:46:19 UTC