Interview with Cory Doctorow

Science Fiction Weekly published my interview with Cory Doctorow today.

[Excerpt:] We’d been briefed, at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on trusted computing by Microsoft, under an arrangement where they would give us a prepublication briefing and we would agree to a moratorium on commenting on it until they went live. But we would tell them what we thought of it so that when they went live they could have their responses ready, but we could have our critique ready. It was a little bit of nice detente. So after the moratorium ran out I published a story on called “0wnz0red” on Salon. It was up for the Nebula and so on. That story was a critique of trusted computing and was really well received. And I got an email from one of the of trusted computing people at Microsoft saying “How can I rebut a short story?” And I thought, “I found an avenue of attack for which they have no defense. I think I’ve got to pursue it.”

Go read it and tell me what you think!