Battleangel

Imagine a future where Intel decides what software its processors will allow you to execute, what OS you will run. Or at the very least that your movies and music have all passed MPAA / RIAA gestapo checkpoints. All cleverly concealed and wrapped in the fight against computer viruses. It does sound awfully familiar doesn’t it? Trading freedom for security that is.

Viruses, malicious code, spyware and other security threats may become a past worry says Intel. According to Intel, its R&D team is hard at work on a technology called Trusted Execution Technology — previously called LaGrande. Abbreviated as TXT, Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology will use hardware keys and subsystems to control what part of a computer’s resources can be accessed and who or what will be granted or denied access.