Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!

Clemens Schwaighofer (cs@tequila.co.jp)
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:02:54 +0900


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Linus Torvalds wrote:

If signing something with a public key, makes they GPL, this would be
ridicolous. I mean, when I use GPL mutt & GPL GnuPG and whatever.

Point for me is, that with a DRM you could 100% verify that foreign
module Y is 100% from company Z. Or that binary product F is 100% from
the company and can be trusted to run here or there.

I think the major problem with DRM is the negative vibration it bringts
with its very stupid use in all kind of Mass Media Music/Movie industry.
Which is in a kind of ultimate end-of-its-days panic.

> Because signing is (at least right now) the only way to show that you
> trust something. And if you can't show that you trust something, you
can't
> have any real security.

so should we start to sign all our emails? so we know we trust each other?

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