I had no idea this was happening …
Trusted computing sounds verry scary… I already am haveing problems with
my amd processor and the security features…
Seems that the security blocks mostly open source software… silly things, like FIrefox, and Soldat get crashed on the first run… I have to “allow” them to run from a stupid list…
Trusted computing has been around for awhile.
It allows an organization with senstive computer systems to slice up and dole out the administrative privilages of their computers. It can even require that certain actions need multiple admins to make it work.
However, in the context of a simple home PC, where there is probably only one administrator (and also probably only one user) trusted computing is nothing but overhead.
I would guess that what you’re running into when you have to give permission to run firefox et. al is that when you installed your distro you enabled the SE Linux features, which are a set of trusted computing extensions for Linux, originally written by the NSA and since integrated by several vendors. You have the option of NOT installing these packages and your life will probably be easier w/o them as maintaining this stuff is a non-trivial task.
If you’re running windows, then perhaps you’re just running into programs that aren’t allowed to make external connections by default because of the firewall? That’s actually a good feature because it can prevent malicious software from connecting to external servers and doing nasty things like participating in a DDOS attack at the whim of some hacker. The first time a program that the firewall doesn’t know about tries to connect to the internet, the firewall will ask you for permission for it to connect. Once you allow it, it will remember that and the program will be allowed to connect normally from there on out.
As to that video? I haven’t heard of what they’re talking about, but it sounds like a lot of FUD and half truths. To the degree that that I don’t want to spend my time learning what ever else they have to say. The only thing other than “What the hell are they talking about?” that comes to mind is maybe their talking about some sort of DRM?
Anyway, there is nothing in your AMD processor that discriminates against firefox or any other software that runs on an x86 architecture. AMD wants to sell CPU’s and they won’t accomplish that by shipping defective products.
Thanks for the insite Bill 
I realy respect your opinions, and want to say thanks for the explanation, and for you trying to Diagnose my access problems.
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Yes, it is like a Hardware firewall buildt into my processor, and it was intended to do just exactly what you explained, and keep malicious code from executeing.
the DEP protection from my AMD proccessor,I am quite sure it is what is causing the crashes.
I have to put anything that accesses the internet in a special ALLOW list… otherwise the DEP protection window pops up and crashes the application. I dont get the problems in LINUX32 or 64bit distros, Solaris, Free BSD, or in 32 bit windows… so I am guessing it is something to do with the X64 version of DEP. (I get the same problem with an athlon64 and a dual Opteron system, running diffrent builds of X64)
i ususaly run under a docked user account, and only log in as admin when I am doing housekeeping… It crashes in both Admin and PeeOn accounts…
Actualy i really should not call it a crash… DEP is issuing a kill process command, which in turn is just killing the application from carring out any network commands. It only seems to effect experemental software… Thunderbird, firefox, Clam Antivirus (durring an Update), Soldat (freeware), and a few others… After i add the application in question to an allow list they run just fine.
One of my friends from the Ubuntu Linux project IRC, has stated that it may not be DEP at all, but the x64 version IDWLOG.exe that is triggering DEP to panic. he is telling me to just make sure I have a decent firewall , and to disable it…
meh! LOL who knows… guess it is just one of the many joys of useing experemental software / operating systems.
Have a good day :)