http://www.masternewmedia.org/2003/10/12/microsoft_ready_to_achieve_lockin.htm
There are some issues which are sufficiently complex and yet so pregnant with import that even if one cannot understand them in detail and scale, some sort of reaction is called for, mostly along the lines of "do no harm". I have recorded my unease about the concepts behind Microsoft's "Trusted Computing" in previous articles, and I still have grave doubts about this initiative.
This article links to an-online report on the risks involved in this development, with a wealth of internal links and additional references to other articles on this subject. This is one of these forks in the road which, taken blithely, can come back to stab us in some tender parts indeed.
Posted by jho at November 18, 2003 09:50 AM