I believe that MS are providing the tools for oppression on a grand scale.
Already today we have printers putting watermarks on printed pages to help trace who printed what. The ability to relate the writer of documents in MSWord to the PC that produced them and the link between that PC and the user it was registered to is indeed a scary thought.

In the US today where the ability of marketers to know ?everything? about you?and sell it to anyone who wants to pay is protected and treasured. So privacy is a fallacy. In a post Vista world they will have the ability to take it to a whole other level?.what have you been listening to and watching? and from a security services angle?what have you been writing.

No you say, that would not be available. It?s protected. Tell that to the reporters and HP staffers who had their personal phone calls passed around. If it?s captured, it?s available. All it takes is the right price. Or court injunction (under national security concerns of course).


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