What is TCPA?

TCPA is the "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance" Group. An alliance between Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD which will promote a standard or security for PC's.

But the problem is, is their definition of `security' controversial? Yes, in my opinion, it is.

"machines built according to their specification will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners.
In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. (Yes, even more so than at present.)"

In the a very near future(less than a year) every computer will have a TPM(The trusted computing platform) also known as Fritz-Chip, at later development stages, these functions will be directly included into CPUs, soundcards, harddisks, graphiccards, bios and so on.

This chip will make shure that the computer is secure ina a TCPA-conform state and it will check that it's alwasy on that state.
This means that in the first leves we have the hardware, on the second level comes the TCPA, and only then come us.
The communication works with a 2048 bit strong encryption, so its's secure enough to be impossible to decrypt in the coming years.

This way TCPA can prevent unwanted software and hardware. It will be impossible to use software and hardware thats its not aproved by TCPA.

The consequences:

-"The informational self-determination isn't existing anymore, it's not possible to save, copy, create, program, ..., the data like you want. This applies for privates as for companies."
- "The free access to the IT/Software market is completely prevented for anyone except the big companies, the market as we know it today will get completely destroyed."
- "Restrictions in the usage of owned hardware would apply."
- "The liberty of opinion and the free speech on the internet would finally be eliminated."
- "The own rights while using IT-technologies are history."
- "The national self-determination of the der particular countries would be fully in the hands of the USA."
- "Probably the world would break into two digital parts (Countries that express against TCPA)."

What is your oppinion about the TCPA?