Slashdot | Major PC Makers Adopt Trusted Computing Schema: "News.com story regarding so-called trusted computing, and its adoption by the major PC manufacturers. From the article: 'The three largest computer makers--Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM--have started selling desktops and notebooks with so-called trusted computing hardware, which allows security-sensitive applications to lock down data to a specific PC.' Interestingly, while Microsoft is said to be behind the idea support won't be forthcoming for trusted computing until they release Longhorn next year, making this a hardware-vendor lead initiative."