[stylin_geek]

From reading the article, this appears to be another case of wanting to have it both ways..the same people who screamed about internet security and the vulnerability of home pc's to hackers are now screaming because Microsoft is going to try and make it as hard as possible for an intruder to get information from web transactions. The only way to create this kind of security is to integrate software and hardware on both ends. It is a massive project, and it appears that Microsoft is going to spend billions to develop this standard.

[steve-b]

Nonsense; there are plenty of ways to prevent intruders from stealing information without giving Billgatus of Borg a veto at the hardware level over which software can run on your system.