"Trusted" may be military intelligence jargon, but term "trusted computing" originated at Microsoft in the early 2000s. After several particularly nasty interne

"Trusted" may be military intelligence jargon, but term "trusted computing" originated at Microsoft in the early 2000s. After several particularly nasty internet worms gave the company a (justified) reputation of terrible network security, the they launched the "Trustworthy Computing"[1] initiative to rebuild trust in their platform with several security improvements. "Trustworty Computing" eventually became the "Palladium"[2] project with more ambitious goals including DRM. Palladium evolved into NGSCB ("Next-Generation Secure Computing Base") when Microsoft joined with other companies to form the TCPA ("Trusted Computing Platform Alliance") that later became the ("Trusted Computing Group"). The term has always been used by Microsoft (and later the TCPA/TCG) mean a trustworthy platform, from the developer perspective[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy_computing [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi... [3] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html