Good article to show people thinking about switching away from M$.

[Jason Holt]

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Michael Halcrow wrote:
>> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/who_owns_your_c.html
>
> A co-worker of mine who developed TrouSerS (the OSS TPM library)
> pointed out that equating ``Trusted Computing'' with ``Palladium,'' as
> Schneier did in this article by making the term ``Trusted Computing''
> link to an article on Palladium, followed immediately by a comment
> about technology that tries to own people's computers. This detracts
> from the legitimate (non-DRM) uses of hardware-assisted key
> management.
>
> Schneier should know better.

I've never been able to nail down a case of a non-evil use of this technology 
that couldn't be done purely in software or with a much simpler piece of 
hardware.  Could you describe one or two, please?  (And as to naming, you have 
to admit that they've come up with a bewildering number of terms for everyone 
to keep straight.)

 							-J