[gray_charger]

> That's my major problem with it; it locks you out of messing with your own machine data, which you can see being instantly abused by third parties to prevent modifications.

It locks everybody, including the owner, out of any data it doesn't own. That's the point. If you can pull it out, so can anybody else, and you've just made a small hard drive. Could it be used by vendors for DRM-like things? Sure. That's on the vendor, though, and not the technology itself.

[JohnFen]

> That's on the vendor, though, and not the technology itself.

And that's the problem. I have little actual trust of vendors anymore. Too many bridges have been burned to trust by default.