Windows Security GM Talks NGSCB (Palladium)

An article at IT Manager's Journal (along with Slashdot, part of OSDN) reports on John Manferdelli's recent talk at Stanford on what Microsoft is calling for now its "Next Generation Secure Computing Base," or NGSCB (formerly Palladium). Manferdelli is the general manager for Windows security at Microsoft, and his presentation was mostly about the technical, not ethical or other considerations involved in this system. His position is understandably different from those of privacy and free software advocates who assert that Microsoft's elaborate security is designed to lock users into Microsoft software at the expense of privacy and choice.

Comments

This is a test, right?

[terradyn]

So I guess slashdot has gotten to the point where they don't even bother linking to an article since no one actually visits the sites anyway.

Re:Security?

[Frymaster]

Rumour has it, he only works one day a week :o)

i would think the opposite: his beeper must be going all the time!

Illegal Citizen Activity

[CmdrGravy]

I'm getting the message

"Citizen 6767323#2 you do not have sufficient security clearance to access this page, your local Police have been automatically informed of this infraction. Have a nice day"

So I don't think it's Slashdotted.