Trusted computing might be a useful component in end-to-end secrecy. [...] But I don't think it will be a tool for helping the public to keep its private data private from the IRS or hospital administrators, since that supposes that the public can convince the IRS or hospital administrators to accept information in crypto wrappers that favor the public. All the people against whom I would like to protect my private data are people whom I can't compel to accept my data in my privacy wrapper. If I was in a position of power over those people, I wouldn't need trusted computing!

Moreover, the anti-competitive aspects of trusted computing must be stressed. Trusted computing can be used as a tool to eliminate unauthorized interoperability: in English, that means that trusted computing can be used by, say, your the company that sold you your word-processor to ensure that you can't open your own documents with their competitors' products.