Does trusted computing enable more secure data storage, online business practices, and online commerce transactions, while protecting privacy and individual rights?
A high-profile digital civil liberties group is criticising a component of the "trusted computing" technology promoted by Microsoft, IBM and other technology companies, calling the feature a threat to computer users.
Death to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, long live the Trusted Computing Group.
Digital Rights Management certainly gives media companies the ability to control the manner in which consumers use licensed products, but it could also lead to more price flexibility for consumers.
Are you really about to let Microsoft into your computer systems to police copyright?
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.
Does trusted computing enable more secure data storage, online business practices, and online commerce transactions, while protecting privacy and individual rights?
Digital Rights Management certainly gives media companies the ability to control the manner in which consumers use licensed products, but it could also lead to more price flexibility for consumers.
Are you really about to let Microsoft into your computer systems to police copyright?
Commentary:Microsoft says its Palladium security initiative is for the benefit of the users. So why is it being so secretive about its true intentions?
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