But to me "trusted computer" means "reliable, well-designed, robust computer", and it has nothing to do with whether Microsoft or the government approve it.
I've been a computer systems design engineer (that's "system" as in: hardware + OS/drivers + applications) since the mid-1970's, and some of the industrial process control computers I designed and delivered in the 1980's are still working to spec in difficult environments. For a decade I designed and delivered spacecraft computers to the highest MIL-SPECs. I cut my teeth doing component and subsystem failure analyses in the early 80's as a subcontractor to NASA. These days I'm still doing high-rel work, although to be fair I'm working at a considerably higher level of integration; my days of designing with latches and A/D converters, and writing in assembler, are long past.
But you will understand that I bristle a bit when some untrusted company or untrusted government hack tells me I have to use their "mandated trusted" hardware and/or software.
Being old-school has this benefit: My present computer hardware is doing well, and may just outlive me, and I won't have to deal with the latest and greatest "mandated trusted" atrocities. :-)
Could you download all your knowledge onto a USB stick (you do have a USB port on the top of your head right?) and send it to me. It would save me time, although my brain might blue screen trying to comprehend even part of it! But thank God He gives believers His Spirit to comprehend things that are of God. As long as we operate with that "OS."
" But you will understand that I bristle a bit when some untrusted company or untrusted government hack tells me I have to use their "mandated trusted" hardware and/or software. "
What is not to trust from a coalition of Intel, AMD, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco? There are all members of the LGBTQ best places to work list and Business Coalition for the Equality Act. Why would they think that content such upholds Biblical teaching on sexuality is a form of "malware." But again, the vocal opposition is much that of "widescale opposition from the free software community on the grounds that the technology they are developing has a negative impact on the users' privacy and can create customer lock-in, especially if it is used to create DRM applications. It has received criticism from the Linux and FreeBSD communities, as well as the software development community in general." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing_Group
" My present computer hardware is doing well, and may just outlive me, and I won't have to deal with the latest and greatest "mandated trusted" atrocities. :-)"
You think. I foresee a day when most all financial transactions will require TMP enabled hardware, and with the "Trust" being expanded to include ideological content. Just reading how subjective terms of major providers such as Google, MS, Verizon, Comcast in their terms of service, and which are increasingly defined as forbidding non-PC content indicates where the trajectory of ideological censorship is headed.
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