Failure not an option? (Score 1)

This section from the Wired story caught my eye:

"Together, the nub and coprocessor are designed to encrypt data in such a way that no other combination of nub and coprocessor would be able to decrypt it. Change a single bit of code or move the data to another computer, and it is unreadable."

Apparently they're not considering the idea that a computer might (gasp!) fail, or that someone might actually (horrors!( want to migrate their data to another computer!

Besides the already discussed issues, I have to wonder about any system that locks your information into one, and only one system.