EFF: Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk By Seth Schoen.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation examines Microsoft “trusted computing”
environment
originally called Palladium and now referred to as the Microsoft Next-Generation Secure Computing Base, or NGSCB.
Our most fundamental concern is that trusted computing systems are being deliberately designed to support threat models in which the owner of a “trusted” computer is considered a threat. These models are the exception rather than the rule in the history of computer and communications security, and they are not part of the rationales for trusted computing publicly offered by its proponents….
The interoperability, competition, owner control, and similar problems inherent in the TCG and NCSCB approach are serious enough that we recommend against adoption of these trusted computing technologies until these problems have been addressed.
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