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Whether Microsoft's ambitious project is a security solution or a Trojan horse depends much on the company's intentions.
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Palladium holds Promise, and Peril
, 2002-07-08 Whether Microsoft's ambitious project is a security solution or a Trojan horse depends much on the company's intentions.
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The chances of a buffer overflow effecting hardware is very small. The first reason is that it is a well known problem, and people who design/program the hardware know about this issue (unlike the average programmer).
The second reason is that hardware security typically has very limited functionality. This makes it much easier to design and test.
In my experience, with over 15 years in designing and programming hardware security firmware, the issues brought up in this post are just not that difficult to overcome. That does not mean you can ignore them, just that contrary to the title of your post, hardware can actually be effective at helping solve the problems you mention.
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