begin Anders Johansson's quote: | Dennis Powell's statement that it won't allow programs to run if | they haven't been signed by Microsoft is clearly wrong by the way. no, actually, it's not. palladium would run only "trusted" software, with the certification provided by microsoft. amd has been playing with hardware security, as witness the wave report, but that report was written more than two years ago. the actual palladium microcode is included in the patent that was awarded to microsoft last december. whether one *can* disable palladium in the chips is immaterial in that it may already be illegal in the u.s. and some other countries to do so; if cbdtpa is approved next year, it will certainly become illegal to do so. feel free to be unconcerned, but know that if you are, you may well regret it later. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.