TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions Version 1.0 Ross Anderson (See also the Economics and Security Resource Page which gives a lot of background to the issues raised here.) 1. What are TCPA and Palladium? TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by Intel. Their stated goal is `a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will build on the TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features. 2....