Microsoft's Palladium.
Ordinarily, Newsweek’s Steven Levy is one of the best tech journalists going, with an inordinately high grasp of low-level technology issues. But Levy really dropped the ball with his puff piece on Microsoft’s Palladium digital rights management (DRM) initiative. Microsoft’s plan is nothing less than to change the architecture of PC hardware to “address the concerns of security, privacy and intellectual property” according to Levy’s breathless piece.
PC chip manufacturers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices reportedly have agreed to produce the special security chips needed to make the system work. “It’s a whole new class of processors not differentiated by speed, but security,” AMD’s Geoffrey Strongin told Levy.
Palladium will reportedly manage the trustworthiness of any piece of data that runs on your computer by verifying where and who it came from. It also uses cryptography to protect the integrity of your documents and protects your system from viruses. The technology will safeguard your privacy through a collection of proxy services and can allow you to avoid spam through credentialed email.
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