Don't copy that floppy

Glenn Harlan Reynolds on Tech in a Dangerous World:

[U]nder the guise - and perhaps even the reality - of protecting computer systems from hostile programs, security arrangements could easily serve to protect existing corporate interests. It's not hard to imagine why governments and security agencies might prefer to limit most users to big corporate software, perhaps with clipper-chip style backdoors built in, either. And the big corporate types would surely be okay with that.