That first thing you said was what Trusted Computing Group was all about but with whitelisting & chips instead of perfect crypto. Such things were fought well b

That first thing you said was what Trusted Computing Group was all about but with whitelisting & chips instead of perfect crypto. Such things were fought well but App Stores succeeded. For "security" reasons, hardware support will show up in products that incidentally reinforce the DRM parts. Good news is vendors keep differentiating on increased control of product & ASIC costs means there's usually debug hardware in it to tap into. ;)