In five pages this white paper style document focuses upon Palladium by Microsoft in terms of concept, impact, and criticism leveled against it. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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of the Internet, which includes everything from e-mail to access to the World Wide Web, is changing how people communicate with one another.
Even while more and more people are becoming linked via computer and into cyberspace, more and more peoples computers are becoming at risk for viruses (some simple, some dangerous),
hacking and other breaches of security. For one thing, identity fraud is easier these days to initiate, as it doesnt take a hacker very much to go into someones computer
and steel credit card or bank account information while an individual is online. In the past, the ways to deal with security
breaches have included software, firewalls and special user passwords. There have, however, been flaws in these methods as well - and systems that have not been quite so secure as
they should be. As a result, Microsoft, which brought the world the Disk Operating System that made PC use so widespread today, is working on a project called Palladium. Palladium,
which is currently under development, is being touted as the new breakthrough in PC security, as it goes beyond software development into the workings of the PC itself.
Unlike security as advanced through software, Microsoft wants security to be a fundamental part of a computers hardware system (Costello and Sayer, 2002). As
such, during the past summer of 2002, the company was working with Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to develop and design the chips(Costello and Sayer, 2002).
The new architecture allows a new security chip to be used for encryption added to PCs, as well as Application-Program Interfaces, or APIs (Costello and