Comments on: “Control information even after it has been delivered” http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/03/03/control-information-even-after-it-has-been-delivered/ Design and human behaviour Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Architectures of Control in Design » Architectures of control that actually endanger life http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/03/03/control-information-even-after-it-has-been-delivered/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Architectures of Control in Design » Architectures of control that actually endanger life Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:16:48 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=44#comment-151 [...] More broadly in the DRM realm - “controlling information even after it has been delivered” - as discussed here - and ‘trusted computing’ in general would seem to open up many possible cases where life could be endangered as a direct or indirect result. Say an organisation (a school, a workplace, even a family) has a medical reference encyclopaedia in a digital format (maybe they’ve been encouraged to ditch the paper copy altogether because of how ‘convenient’ it’ll be just to pop in a CD). Say that the computer becomes unusable through either DRM leading to insecurity, or ‘trusted’ computing locking it up, or even the medical encyclopaedia ‘expiring’ after a certain amount of time. Those three possibilities aren’t that unlikely, and in each case, life would be endangered. [...] [...] More broadly in the DRM realm – “controlling information even after it has been delivered” – as discussed here – and ‘trusted computing’ in general would seem to open up many possible cases where life could be endangered as a direct or indirect result. Say an organisation (a school, a workplace, even a family) has a medical reference encyclopaedia in a digital format (maybe they’ve been encouraged to ditch the paper copy altogether because of how ‘convenient’ it’ll be just to pop in a CD). Say that the computer becomes unusable through either DRM leading to insecurity, or ‘trusted’ computing locking it up, or even the medical encyclopaedia ‘expiring’ after a certain amount of time. Those three possibilities aren’t that unlikely, and in each case, life would be endangered. [...]

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