Palladium is insidiously arriving anyway...

I was wondering what this thing that my CPU supported was…

“Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT)”

Actually it’s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Execution_Technology

In fact, all of this is linked to Microsoft’s Palladium project… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing http://www.eff.org/wp/trusted-computing-promise-and-risk http://sourceforge.net/projects/tboot

And Vista Enterprise and Ultimate already support the Palladium system natively…

And PCs with the vPro term contain Intel TXT technology… so they support Palladium…

http://www.intel.com/products/vpro/index.htm

It seems that the technology around Palladium is starting to insidiously insert itself onto our machines…