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Palladium, 'Trusted PCs' in the News

Posted by michael on from the spin-control dept.

Reuters is carrying a fairly lengthy article on Palladium and 'Trusted Computing'. Worth reading - remember that what the Reuters/AP wires carry is all that most people will ever know about any particular issue.

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  1. Yup by cscx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Palladium involves new security components to be built into Windows, but it also depends heavily on hardware makers--including Intel and AMD--building in Palladium functionality to their products.

  2. Seth Schoen's Palladium Summary by pberry · · Score: 5, Informative

    When Microsoft came to talk to us about Palladium, Seth took some notes and did this write up.

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    -- Are you an EFF member yet?
  3. Re:Heh by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 3, Informative
    Infact Bill Gates himself called these TCPA chips as bouncers in your system to make sure everything is behaving properly. (bouncers??)
    Yes. This is a good thing. Properly behaved software is a good thing. Unbehaved software contains "bugs". Bugs are bad.
    In that case, let's not worry. Microsoft track record ensures that we will never see "properly behaved software" coming from them.