(FWD) 'LaGrandium' and the Dark Side of 'Trusted' Computing

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  http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,528840,00.asp

  'LaGrandium' and the Dark Side of 'Trusted' Computing
  By  Jason Brook

  On Monday, Intel introduced its development forum attendees to LaGrande, a trusted
  computing technology slated for inclusion in future Intel processors, perhaps as soon as the
  middle of next year. 

  Intel's LaGrande-based processor chips (AMD plans to include similar features in its own
  chips) are supposed to team with a future Microsoft OS technology called Palladium to
  deliver a more controllable-and therefore more secure-computing platform than we have
  today.
 
  Now, whether these "trusted" platforms will result in more security and control
  for the individual computer user remains to be seen. 

  The trusted computing platform that Intel and Microsoft are countenancing
  would be built around a protected memory space in which trusted services run, a
  sealed storage mechanism for storing encrypted data, and a facility for providing
  operating environment information to outside parties.  In Microsoft's Palladium
  materials, those outside parties are called "external requestors."

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