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Gartner: Trios to rule IT (ZDNet)
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USENIX attendees debate merits of Palladium (ZDNet)
Attendees at the USENIX security conference in San Francisco debate the merits of Microsoft's Palladium architecture for its Trustworthy Computing initiative. Microsoft positions it as technology that would enhance privacy, stymie piracy and increase a corporation's control over its computers. Users, however, say Palladium may block them from certain data by mechanisms that monitor software licensing, for example. Instead of keeping third parties from prying into data, it may keep intended users out, attendees said.
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