| European consumers will soon get a first taste of what Bill Gates meant by "Trustworthy Computing." 
NEC Computing International has announced a trial program in which Packard Bell PCs will be equipped with keyboards that include secure smart-card readers. 
 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates launched the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative earlier this year in a widely distributed e-mail to staff. 
But developers of secure systems -- a field not coincidentally known as "trusted computing" -- say Microsoft's plans will go nowhere without new hardware that addresses fundamental security problems in the PC's aging architecture. 
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