21 September, 2005 - 11:45am

The Electronic Frontier Foundation bring up some excellent questions surrounding Trusted Computing with respect to privacy invasion, "big brother" control, and vendor lock-in / anti-open source. Although Trusted Computing is tangential to our identity management focus; our Identity 2.0 vision of the Web is founded on giving control of digital identity back to the individual. Thus the concerns raised by the EFF are something that bears mention. They provide an excellent summary in Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk. Check out an informative and entertaining video that explains the issues in plain English!

The brilliant Stanford legal scholar, Lawrence Lessig, also wrote an article in Red Herring on this issue a while back. The Against TCPA gives analogies of Huxley's utopian world state and of Orwell's 1984. Lets hope that in the Internet world, the future is one that's open, secure and user-centric.