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Who owns YOUR hardware?

This is an article which relates to DRM, TCPA, my “Dear Linus” artivle and freedom:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/2567:
If I purchase hardware, it is my hardware and is no longer owned by the manufacturer. If my hardware checks a cryptographic signature on a binary file to verify its origins, it should be my signature signed with my key since [...]

Dear Linus,

“Say I’m a hardware manufacturer. I decide I love some particular piece of open-source software, but when I sell my hardware, I want to make sure it runs only one particular version of that software, because that’s what I’ve validated. So I make my hardware check the cryptographic signature of the binary before I run [...]

Proprietary Software is losing market-share everywhere, even in malware-developement market.

“Until 6 months ago, blackhats bought (or probably stole) their tools from respectable companies. Proprietary Software is losing market-share everywhere, even in malware-developement market.” This has to be scary for closed-source shops!

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