Inventing digital manacles, for your safety
Brace yourself for digital enslavement.
Now that Microsoft has started moving forward with its plans for Palladium, it is not hard to see how it will quickly clamp down on all computing. The scariest thing about Palladium is not that it threatens to make Open Source irrelevant (or worse, perhaps even illegal) or that it gives Microsoft more control over your computer, but that it puts Microsoft in the position of defining your rights.
Normally this is what governments do.
If Microsoft is successful in promoting Palladium, I imagine it will only be a matter of time before it renders conventional notions of governance obsolete. It already issues (actually, it doesn’t issue, it requires) its own Passport, after all. 
