The fascinatingly-named Robert X. Cringely has written a sobering account of Microsoft’s newest stab at world domination: Palladium. As Cringely describes it, it’s Microsoft’s attempt to replace TCP/IP, the public domain protocol that runs the internet, with a proprietary protocol owned by Microsoft. They sell it as a way of making the internet more secure by exchanging every component down to your desktop computer’s processor with an MS one that will contain special encryption software. If that’s the case, it makes last year’s Smart Tags look like a spit in the ocean.
Is the whole world becoming an Onion story? I hope not.
funny, Cringely is about how I feel when I think about that…
The whole world is already an Onion story — especially to the Chinese.