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PalladiumPalladium is a new
hardware and software architecture. This architecture will include
a new security computing chip and design changes to a computer's
central processing unit (CPU), chipsets, and peripheral devices,
such as keyboards and printers. It also will enable applications
and components of these applications to run in a protected memory
space that is highly resistant to tampering and interference."
"And what if some government thinks
that Palladium protects information too much? So far, the United
States doesn't seem to have a problem, but less tolerant nations
might insist on a "back door" that would allow it to wiretap and
search people's data. There would be problems in implementing
this, um, feature." "Let's understand
here that not all Microsoft products are bad and many are very
good. Those products serve real customer needs and do so with
genuine purpose, not marketing artifice. But Palladium isn't that
way at all. This is NOT about making things better for the user.
This is about removing the ability for the end user to make
decisions about how his or her computer functions. It is an effort
by Microsoft to take literal ownership of Internet technology,
Microsoft's "embrace and extend" strategy applied for the Nth
time, though on a grander scale than we've ever seen before." |
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