[Dalponis]

Written: 2003-09-18

"The once known as TCPA (Trusted Computing Platform Alliance), now known as TCG (Trusted Computing Group) means all computers would have a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) built into the bios, video card, sound card, CPU or any other computer part with 2048bit strong encryption. This module will work with your operating system (Microsoft OSes) and make sure that only TCG software and hardware will work with your system. Now since everything has to be TCG approved, you can say good-bye to all small computer hardware/software manufacturers since the TCG hardware requires TCG software and vice-versa. Since the encryption is real-time, you can safely say it won'tbe cracked."

Read the full article here:
http://www.uniquehardware.ca/articles/atcpa/atcpa1.1.php

[ubercanuck]

sounds a little like "Big Brother" to me. This could be bad for the computer industry since i know some people will just plug along on their machines without this feature till the silicon wears out . I don't want to sound religous here but this coupled with RFID is just omens to some very bad times.

i do and don't support this kind of thing. here's my reasoning. For the home consumer, no way it's not needed. but on a lragescale coproate level this could be beneficial. You could, in theory from my understanding, design the system so only xcompatible hardware will work in the machine so say for example would could eliminate hardware conlifct / software conflicts. Also large companies can usually afford to spend billions on software where as your average joe user most likely not.

Anyway these are my thoughts on this subject, i don't think it's going to be going so well.