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Palladium is an entirely new computer architecture recently announced by MS as designed to improve security. Under this new architecture new "security
chip" used for encryption will be added to all PCs (and other devices). The technology would paste a digital certificate on every byte of data and PC on the web, then encrypt the data on the processor level. Simplistically put, the system will enable the computer to run and display only applications and content defined by it (not the user) as "Safe". Palladium already gave rise to a heated public debate with proponents praising it as an invaluable security measure and critics trashing it as the essence of totalitarianism.
see:
<http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1378731>

What are the implications of such an architecture?

Is Palladium the inevitable future of the Internet?

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"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence
over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
--Richard Feynman
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