This week's installment of The Command Line podcast is a recording from a panel on Secure Computing Environments with Vernor Vinge, held last weekend at Penguicon, the free software/science fiction convention in Novi Troy, MI. The panel's really fascinating and far-ranging, covering the nitty-gritty of how trusted computing is — and might be — implemented, to the policy, surveillance, and activist possibilities opened up by a universally available secure computing platform.
Audio from Vernor Vinge secure computing platforms panel
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