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I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

wired.com — It used to be that just the entertainment industries wanted to control your computers -- and televisions and iPods and everything else -- to ensure that you didn't violate any copyright rules. But now everyone else wants to get their hooks into your gear.

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  • tufftugg, on 06/26/2008, -6/+1 Someone has to babysit people.
  • shaidorsai, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Absolutely astonishing.
    • GregR, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Not really, this is just a new version of DRM. And to think that MS is spearheading this is even scarier.
  • cyclonecross, on 06/26/2008, -0/+6Scary stuff.
  • tj111, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3This will work as good as DRM. Anyone with a little bit of interest will be able to bypass this. So in the end anyone on this site probably won't have to worry about this.
    • mvandemar, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Until they make bypassing it punishable by jail sentences, that is.

      We aren't simply talking about copying movies or mp3's here, the article discusses scenarios that definitely could have some serious repercussions. The possibility of police gaining the power to force video cameras to turn off, for instance, in the name of security. That's actually pretty scary.
      • GregR, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1"Until they make bypassing it punishable by jail sentences, that is."

        Yeah, because making something illegal has proven to work so well is 'the war on drugs', stopping the sale of illegal weapons and so on.

        There's just too much room for abuse and the criminal element will use this to their advantage and the disadvantage of the public.
  • glucoseboy, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3Great, another bad idea: Let's give the real "terrorists" some more tools to bring chaos and disruption to our lives.

    Why are policy-makers always trying to fight the "last" war? "Hmm, those terrorists hijacked planes to crash into buildings so let's stop folks from hijacking things" by providing a remote switch that can allow folks to hijack planes remotely?
  • boydean, on 06/28/2008, -0/+2Makes me want to become Amish
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