Microsoft Palladium

MicrosoftPalladium is dead, see MicrosoftSecurity for future developments (May04)

Microsoft's newest initiative, MicrosoftPalladium is purportedly an attempt to make networked computing more secure through a number of safeguards, on both the software and hardware level. Others fear that it's also an attempt to choke off the viability of non-Microsoft products under the pretense of security.

Newsweek article which conveniently forgets to mention Microsoft's own role in making the internet buggy and insecure: http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp

TheRegister article which discusses the possibility of MicrosoftPalladium destroying the GPL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25891.html

RobertCringely? column discussing the possibly negative effects of MicrosoftPalladium: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020627.html

Slashdot story discussing same: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/27/125227&mode=nested&tid=109

Ross Anderson of Cambridge University is writing an FAQ on Palladium and the TCPA (Trusted Computing Platform Alliance): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html And I can't help but wonder: Given the non-trivial investment that large businesses have in Microsoft products, how likely is it that all of them will begrudgingly make the transition to being Palladium-compliant?

This is also Microsoft's entry into DigitalRightsManagement.

Also see: PalladiumDiscussion

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