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Microsoft continues to tweak a controversial architecture for securing PCs but still plans to include the feature in Longhorn, the next release of Windows.
Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.
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Counterpane CTO Bruce Schneier says Microsoft is stalling the adoption of a best practices document on software security.
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ARM is to integrate security into its popular processor cores for mobile devices, paving the way for Palladium-style secure systems.
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