Bridging the Gap between TCPA/Palladium and Personal Security
Ahmad‐Reza Sadeghi, Christian Stüble · 2003
Microsoft Palladium (Pd) and TCPA are announced to be the next-generation computing platforms, and claimed to improve users' security. However, the public debate on TCPA/Pd is full of skepticism and mistrust about the claimed security enhancements for the users. People are concerned about those features and capabilities of these systems that can be applied to realize Digital Rights Management: they may allow content providers to gain too much power and control over the use of digital content and users' private information. The general negative and sometimes prejudiced response about TCPA/Pd left less space for an unbiased and objective evaluation.