I wonder if Microsoft came out with Palladium (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...</a>) today, if it would be hailed as a great development for privacy or would still garner lots of criticism as it did 10 years ago.<p>Of Palladium, Bruce Scheier said:<p>&gt; &quot;There&#x27;s a lot of good stuff in Pd, and a lot I like about it. There&#x27;s also a lot I don&#x27;t like, and am scared of. My fear is that Pd will lead us down a road where our computers are no longer our computers, but are instead owned by a variety of factions and companies all looking for a piece of our wallet. To the extent that Pd facilitates that reality, it&#x27;s bad for society. I don&#x27;t mind companies selling, renting, or licensing things to me, but the loss of the power, reach, and flexibility of the computer is too great a price to pay.&quot;<p>I think his fears have come true to some extent in iOS, but knowing what we know now about government surveillance of everybody, it may no longer seem like too great a price to pay. That is, if you trust the vendor. Apple seems to be worthy of that trust. But Microsoft...?<p>Edit: formatting