...it sounds like some place-name in Mordor: "Naagscab" I suppose it should name a sulfurous cave, or some other, um, foul hole... Thanks to Charles Evans for the pronunciation hint.
Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword- bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing base".
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