A friend of mine saw this driving around the Presidio about a month ago. True to geeky form, the team seemed to be set up at one of the coolest addresses around– 1337 Pope Street.

Sam,

Essentially what TPM provides is the ability for content owners (either individual users or corporations) to control on what machines and with which applications (and even which users) can access files. The most obvious use-case for TPM would be Apple putting something into OS X which checks to see that the proper TPM chip is present on the motherboard (thus ensuring that it is an Apple machine) before booting the system. Additionally, content with DRM can more easily be locked to individual hardware devices.

What Amit did was create a program which allowed individual users to protect their own files with TPM. So, for instance, I could specify that I only want hello_world.txt to be able to open in Text Edit and only on my PowerBook, and only when I'm logged in.

Hope this helps,
Dan

The point of a software lauch party is the same as any other party, three fold:

Relax and let loose

See your friends

Attempt to leave said party with an attractive member of the opposite sex (in most cases)

With a software lauch party, there is the additional goal to akknowledge the hard work people have put into the software.

Some of the best parties I've been to have been software lauch parties.

Fixed, thanks mark.

"Note: I have nothing to do with the access business. I couldn't even tell you who runs the access business at AOL or how they run their department. However, I just checked my badge and it says AOL on it, so clearly it's my responsibility."

Awesome.