Trust must be earned. This hard lesson is being learned by the five tech giants behind "trusted-computing" initiatives aimed at securing user privacy. Depending on whom you believe, the companies developing trusted-computing technology are either Santa or Satan. . .
Trust must be earned. This hard lesson is being learned by the five tech giants behind "trusted-computing" initiatives aimed at securing user privacy. Depending on whom you believe, the companies developing trusted-computing technology are either Santa or Satan.

Trusted computing is a nebulous hardware/software concept being trumpeted as the solution to safeguarding information privacy and computer security. Critics counter that the initiative is simply a front to fatten the coffers of Hollywood studios and record labels by enforcing digital-rights management (DRM), and that it could quash innovation in the software industry. And users worry that the technologies could bar them from material stored on their own computers if they haven't met licensing requirements.

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