30
07
2006
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 I am the owner of the hardware. It should be illegal for any hardware manufacturer, whether they are using GNU GPL’d licensed software or not, to use cryptographic signatures to lock the owner of hardware out of their own hardware.
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