Microsoft: Trusted Computing sucks!

A very senior Microsoft employee has given a statement to the press disavowing Sony's use of technology that takes control away from users:

"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours," said Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy. "Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."

I could not agree more! Unfortunately, Microsoft's whole current business model is built around systems that take control away from users (See, for example, EFF's Seth Schoen's excellent four-part report on Microsoft's new trusted computing/rights management program, which treats the computer's owner as an attacker and works to shut her out of her own system).

I wonder if this is Microsoft's new official policy — will they include owner override (a proposal to let computer owners override trusted computing) in their trusted computing plans?

Link, Sony Rootkit Roundup Part I, Sony Rootkit Roundup Part II

(Thanks, Rik!)