June 28, 2002 - UPDATE
Today I spoke with a former Microsoft employee who say's Microsoft has been developing chip based security for over 3 years, and was supposed to release "Palladium" along with the Intel's P4
June 25, 2002. IDG released an article talking about Microsoft’s new hardware based security system, code named "Palladium". According to IDG the new system will take over for what software has been doing as encryption, digital signatures, and Digital Rights management enforcement. This means that although system security will be much easier to achieve and implement, users can and most likely will be restricted in the areas of music, movies, and downloaded software, similarly to how Microsoft’s Xbox restricts what software can be run on its platform windows most likely will follow the same game, and nothing without an authorized signature will run on your system.
To sugar coat this initiative it looks like Microsoft is actually pushing for the system to open source which doesn’t make any sense seeing the system is going to be primarily used on windows. Its flawed logic to think a system such as this is going to bridge the huge security flaws constantly found in windows. If Microsoft used the funding it spent on the "Palladium" project for purification of its current software there would be little need for Palladium in the first place.
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