June 5th, 2005, 04:48 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: England, UK
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Apple has an interest in TCPA...
I was doing some reasearch for a project im working on involving BSD (Many of you probably know that MacOS X is based on FreeBSD). Anyway, a project exists for FreeBSD called `trustedBSD` which for some odd, un-open-source-promoting reason seeks to introduce TCPA into BSD.
Anyway so I'm looking at this page (mainly to see if it would last or fail (in the hope of it failing)) and I find that APPLE has `made generous contributions` to the project.
To me that says apple has a major interest in TCPA, which to me says that OSXI (11) will have TCPA features in it. That last part is speculation, but as far as I'm concerned, apple just p*ssed on their chips. There is no way I am buying a mac now.
I thought you'd like to know of my discovery
Quote:
The TrustedBSD Project is made possible through the generous sponsorship and donations of a variety of organizations, including the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Security Agency (NSA), Network Associates Laboratories, Safeport Network Services, the University of Pennsylvania, Yahoo!, McAfee Research, SPARTA, Inc., Apple Computer, Inc., and others. Contributions to support the TrustedBSD Project are welcome; please consider making donations through the FreeBSD Foundation.
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And yes, that does say the american government also has interest in it (read: DARPA, NSA)
Source: http://www.trustedbsd.org/
Some people just don't get that if only microsoft, HP and SUN have TCPA-compliant operating systems, the whole thing will fail...
Why anyone wants ot do this project is beyond me...
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