Intel schemes to confound online gaming cheats

An Intel research project looks set to make good the maxim that a cheater never wins. It's developing specialist software and hardware to ensure that online gamers all play fairly. Gamers have cheated since the dawn of gaming, developing codes to give them better weaponry, infinite lives, invicibility and, in the case of …

[Matthew Saroff]

A Backdoor to Hardware DRM?

Just wondering if this is a back door to getting DRM hardware installed on people's machines.

I would think that this technology might very well be a way of locking down machines at a later date, so that people can't back up DVDs and CD (and there is that whole Bit Torrent thing).