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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2685831" data-attributes="member: 14159">"Trusted Computing" they call it.  It's supposed to mean computing resources with security you can trust.  What it really means is: They Don't Trust You.Honestly, if MS really implements all these Trusted Computing initiatives as mandatory in any future OS, I can see it being a critical blunder.  The whole reason Windows (and before that the IBM PC) became so successful was that it was open to third party vendors as well as hobbyists and amateurs; anybody could just whip up a program for it, come out with a PC/Windows version of their software, and pretty soon you could do anything you want with the PC and then Windows, Trusted Computing is a big step backwards.Some governments like Brasil have already moved away from using MS because they don't like the idea that their computers are running on software they can't see the source code (national security issues to be sure), and making it so that MS can say "your programs don't work" is a very serious security issue.  Would you trust your entire country or company to Microsoft granting you permission to run the programs you need to run, even if MS might not like them?Simply put, do you trust Microsoft implicitly to grant you permission to use your computer?  I don't think people do, hence the general fizzle of the .NET Passport initative.</blockquote>