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Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gilmore)
Tue Sep 14 07:36:28 2010
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, gnu@toad.com
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:58:57 -0700
From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars
"In describing the motivation behind Intel's recent purchase of McAfee
for a packed-out audience at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's Paul
Otellini framed it as an effort to move the way the company approaches
security "from a known-bad model to a known-good model." Otellini went
on to briefly describe the shift in a way that sounded innocuous
enough--current A/V efforts focus on building up a library of known
threats against which they protect a user, but Intel would live to
move to a world where only code from known and trusted parties runs on
x86 systems."
Let me guess -- to run anything but Windows, you'll soon have to
jailbreak even laptops and desktop PC's?
John
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