Palladium rears it's ugly head in a NYTimes article. Being one to throw gasoline on fire, as opposed to oil on water here is some more information on it (just go to google and look up MS Palladium - I think MS has dropped Palladium as a descriptor, because they want to "forget" the (negative) information that has been written about it).

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/jul02/0724palladiumwp.asp

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25852.html

http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/palladium.html

http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0208.html

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/1378731