Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Computer experts say Microsoft's "Palladium" software project, which builds on technology being developed by the "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance" (TCPA), could be misused
to gain unprecedented access to personal computers and endanger freedom of speech. TCPA could potentially allow courts, governments and corporations to remotely delete and censor files they deem offensive. Microsoft claims that Palladium will offer better security to end users, which draws scoffs from observers who find it ironic that "the company responsible for nearly every major computer security problem, virus, and backdoor ... is now heralding its ability to make everything better." "Trusted Computing" is also featured prominently in a new website concerned with "issues, particularly those related to personal computer use, which threaten to bring us closer to the dystopian nightmare of George Orwell's novel, 1984."
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