 What is a "trusted computer"?
The Web, after all, is less than a generation old. During the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, this type of rationalization took the form of ever-more complex managed systems, with crisp specification of roles, lines of authority, communication and control.
 A computer that will not run a program without authorization from some other locus, such as a copyright owner.
 A computer system that implements the belief that machines are trustworthy, while human users are malevolent and or incompetent.  A computer system that is well-designed and tightly bound.  A computer that will not run a program without authorization from some other locus, such as a copyright owner.  A computer system where human beings are located and can make decisions about what is worthwhile.