Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? I find this announcement very disconcerting. To me, trusting Microsoft with such power is anathema and to find that AMD is in co

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? I find this announcement very disconcerting. To me, trusting Microsoft with such power is anathema and to find that AMD is in cohorts with MS is quite upsetting, as over the years I've championed AMD in its war with Intel. No doubt, this is yet another step in MS's and other corporates' interests in further proprietarizing the personal computer ecosystem and locking individual users out of the technology. That Pluton is locked into the CPU makes matters even worse, it means essentially that MS, and likely others, will have the power to dictate how a user can use his/her machine even to the extent of controlling and what software can be run on it. There's also a bigger existential issue at stake. When others have total control over one's 'gateway' to computing and internet then one's forfeited one's autonomy to act independently. The potential to control our lives politically and otherwise becomes a real possibility especially if such technology were mandated for use in domestic equipment - mandated, of course, on grounds of so-called 'security' after lobbying from MS and others.