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Re: Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Sep 14 19:13:41 2010
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:57:05 -0700
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <201009140358.o8E3wvWP005672@new.toad.com>
On 9/13/10 at 8:58 PM, gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore) wrote:
>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."
Does that include monetary indemnity when the "known-good" turns=20
out to be bad? I bet not.
If we could "know good", security would be a lot easier, but=20
nobody has a clue how to actually achieve that knowledge.
>Let me guess -- to run anything but Windows, you'll soon have=20
>to jailbreak even laptops and desktop PC's?
I expect Steve Jobs will get them to approve MacOS too.
=46or the rest, there's always AMD.
Cheers - Bill
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