Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/17/140224 Posted by: Zonk, on 2005-03-17 15:13:00 from the can-I-borrow-a-cup-of-data? dept. An anonymous reader wrote to let us known about a News.com story regarding so-called [1]trusted computing, and its adoption by the major PC manufacturers. From the article: "The three largest computer makers--Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM--have started selling desktops and notebooks with so-called trusted computing hardware, which allows security-sensitive applications to lock down data to a specific PC." Interestingly, while Microsoft is said to be behind the idea support won't be forthcoming for trusted computing until they release Longhorn next year, making this a hardware-vendor lead initiative. References 1. http://news.com.com/Hardware+security+sneaks+into+PCs/2100-7355_3-5619035.ht... l?tag=cd.lede ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]