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From: Therese Godefroy
Subject: www/philosophy can-you-trust.html
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:53:44 +0000

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 15/12/11 10:53:44

Modified files:
        philosophy     : can-you-trust.html 

Log message:
        Restore correct spacing between list items.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/can-you-trust.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.53&r2=1.54

Patches:
Index: can-you-trust.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/philosophy/can-you-trust.html,v
retrieving revision 1.53
retrieving revision 1.54
diff -u -b -r1.53 -r1.54
--- can-you-trust.html  26 Feb 2015 15:55:11 -0000      1.53
+++ can-you-trust.html  11 Dec 2015 10:53:44 -0000      1.54
@@ -152,15 +152,17 @@
 <h3>Postscripts</h3>
 
 <ol>
-<li>The computer security field uses the term &ldquo;trusted
+<li><p>
+The computer security field uses the term &ldquo;trusted
 computing&rdquo; in a different way&mdash;beware of confusion
-between the two meanings.
-</li>
-<li>The GNU Project distributes the GNU Privacy Guard, a program that
+between the two meanings.</p></li>
+
+<li><p>
+The GNU Project distributes the GNU Privacy Guard, a program that
 implements public-key encryption and digital signatures, which you can
 use to send secure and private email.  It is useful to explore how GPG
 differs from treacherous computing, and see what makes one helpful and
-the other so dangerous.
+the other so dangerous.</p>
 <p>
 When someone uses GPG to send you an encrypted document, and you use
 GPG to decode it, the result is an unencrypted document that you can
@@ -172,10 +174,10 @@
 Treacherous computing is designed to impose restrictions on the users;
 <em>it</em> uses <em>them</em>.</p></li>
 
-<li>
+<li><p>
 The supporters of treacherous computing focus their discourse on its
 <a name="beneficial">beneficial uses</a>.  What they say is often
-correct, just not important.
+correct, just not important.</p>
 <p>
 Like most hardware, treacherous-computing hardware can be used for
 purposes which are not harmful.  But these features can be implemented in
@@ -188,12 +190,13 @@
 freedom, while offering minor benefits to distract us from what we
 would lose.</p></li>
 
-<li>Microsoft presents Palladium as a security measure, and claims that
+<li><p>
+Microsoft presents Palladium as a security measure, and claims that
 it will protect against viruses, but this claim is evidently false.  A
 presentation by Microsoft Research in October 2002 stated that one of
 the specifications of Palladium is that existing operating systems and
 applications will continue to run; therefore, viruses will continue to
-be able to do all the things that they can do today.
+be able to do all the things that they can do today.</p>
 <p>
 When Microsoft employees speak of &ldquo;security&rdquo; in connection with
 Palladium, they do not mean what we normally mean by that word:
@@ -216,13 +219,14 @@
 do.  &ldquo;Spoofing&rdquo; doesn't mean someone's fooling you, it means
 your fooling Palladium.  And so on.</p></li>
 
-<li>A previous statement by the Palladium developers stated the basic
+<li><p>
+A previous statement by the Palladium developers stated the basic
 premise that whoever developed or collected information should have
 total control of how you use it.  This would represent a revolutionary
 overturn of past ideas of ethics and of the legal system, and create
 an unprecedented system of control.  The specific problems of these
 systems are no accident; they result from the basic goal.  It is the
-goal we must reject.</li>
+goal we must reject.</p></li>
 </ol>
 
 <hr />
@@ -303,7 +307,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/02/26 15:55:11 $
+$Date: 2015/12/11 10:53:44 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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