Major PC Makers Adopt Trusted Computing Schema

An anonymous reader wrote to let us known about a News.com story regarding so-called trusted computing, and its adoption by the major PC manufacturers. From the article: "The three largest computer makers--Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM--have started selling desktops and notebooks with so-called trusted computing hardware, which allows security-sensitive applications to lock down data to a specific PC." Interestingly, while Microsoft is said to be behind the idea support won't be forthcoming for trusted computing until they release Longhorn next year, making this a hardware-vendor lead initiative.

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[Anonymous Coward]

..please read this:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

this: http://www.gentoo.org/news/20050202-trustedgentoo. xml and, linked from there, this:

http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/tcpa_rebutta l.pdf

rms' writing about trusted computing

[latroM]

rms on trusted computing

Re:The end is coming and people want it!?!?

[tabkey12]

I think it is important that you read this document from IBM which points out that the technology they will be introducing will not lock you down to a specific Operating System.