darknet revisited.

Goods sold to corporations are less threatened because corporations mostly try to stay legal, and will police their own intranets for illicit activities. Additionally, the cost-per-bit, and the total size of the objects have a huge bearing on the competitiveness of today’s darknets compared with legal trade.

but: if they don't even trust their own employees, if adults don't trust youngsters - as bbc quotes a new study, if the "trust" measurements will take too long for stock transactions (some stress as an argument against proposed security methods) and the fbi can't read out data, and home security may want to have their backdoor; as long as other methods are around, as long as ie the german bank association says: we have spend too much money on alternatives and therefore will stick with it for the next years (tan generator, digital signature) - a german specialty if you consider isdn and osi - therefore: as long as germans want to make it to a topic at their next eu-presidency and their bsi dreams of certificating every part, a lot of bits will flow through wires until ... yet in the end it sounds as a cry for a lot of regulations and expenditures: a lot will happen to scare people about their net behaviour, making them believe in don't trust anyone, but "my" gospels | depending who preaches: hard or soft ones. yet, i don't think industry is yet pretty good in defining methods for pretending to be the good chaps, even if they use the lable opentc, as hp does. cirlce closed somehow. but you can easily open it up again with telcos and their cry for net neutrality, or someone else involved in the game. choose your sparring partner.

when i listen to some german guys talking about trusted computing ideas - "end of the pc as we know it", liability - i can imagine how it must have been during old osi/tcp turmoil ...

a pc is not a car and you won't succeed in that. also i am getting really angry if i hear once more: phishing attack and therefore we need trusted computing! you want that i trust ya? be more serious, stupid.

i am not so sure that open source or foss goes well together with trusted computing as some want to make me believe. why the combination? talking about making up the mind of someone else, but at the same time to profess to be open source, sounds to me as a contradiction. first grade. if so, what would remain as difference between proprietary software and open source? and what does hp want to tell me about trustworthy computing if they don't even trust their own people?

trust! cast the eu cost-effective security chip plan. the trusted ¿by whom? computing group.