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Trusted computing, TPMs etc have always been about this scenario. It's just the anti DRM crowd has some people that think the end user is always the person sitting in front of the terminal, and there should never be a way to reduce that person's access.

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> It's just the anti DRM crowd has some people that think the end user is always the person sitting in front of the terminal, and there should never be a way to reduce that person's access.

That may be extreme (if it's not a strawman), but a major problem with TPM is that there is no way to give control to the end-user, with the possible exception of customers large enough to demand hardware customization.

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