] After a year of tackling the Windows security nightmare,
] Microsoft has killed its Next-Generation Secure Computing
] Base (NGSCB) project and later this year plans to detail
] a revised security plan for Longhorn, the next major
] version of Windows, company executives said.
]
] On Tuesday, Microsoft executives confirmed that NGSCB
] will be canned. The project, dreamed up with Intel in
] 2002, was once code-named Palladium.

I hate this technology to my core. I see its uses (banking, online transactions, etc), but this closed spec will be used extensively by Microsoft to protect its code and cause incompatibilities.

Its like Nuclear technology.Yes, we have over 440 Nuclear power plants worldwide, but we have orders of magnitude more Nuclear weapons.

[ That sounds like an argument that we should never have developed Nuclear science... which seems somewhat out of character.

The fundamental distinction is that closed-spec "Trusted" computing is not inevitible, as was nuclear, and will not leave us prey to our enemies in the way microsoft would have you believe. There are solutions to the security and IP problems we have today that don't require my PC to be locked away from my control.

I'm sure you agree with this... i was just trying to distance the issue from the analogy you made. -k]

Microsoft Shelves Palladium in Longhorn (for now)