Ross against PC security plans -- ahead of time

Newsweek's deadlines (below) would certainly have prevented it from reading last Wednesday's story in the New York Times, but it adds context the Newsweek story ought to have picked up. The NYT story is about a paper given by Ross Anderson, my hero the UK security community, attacking "the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an organization formed in October 1999 by Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft". This leads me to believe that, far from being an isolated Microsoft stunt, Palladium is part of Microsoft's implementation of the TCPA strategy, and Intel is the driving force behind that. Interested readers can download Anderson's paper from his home page at Cambridge University.