"Trusted" computing is making a step "forward" with an announcement that DRM could find its way into the controllers of hard drives.[TG Daily]There's a mechanism that exists in an HDD between the I/O processor and the read/write head, and unless that's secured, that small distance becomes the weak link in the chain. "It's that last inch, or half-inch, of movement and manipulation that's always been the sensitive aspect of some of these control systems. Now that you've got the sensitive and secure computation right on the drive media itself, you maybe are closing that little half-inch."
Would you trust your DRM'd hard drive? Would you really know what was actually being stored on your hard drive if such a system was implemented? Let us know what you think.