[145871] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Tue Sep 14 19:14:09 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <201009140358.o8E3wvWP005672@new.toad.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:15:26 -0400
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
On Sep 13, 2010, at 11:58 57PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> =
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-=
put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars
>=20
> "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."
>=20
> Let me guess -- to run anything but Windows, you'll soon have to=20
> jailbreak even laptops and desktop PC's?
>=20
I've written a long blog post on this issue for the Concurring Opinions =
legal blog; see =
http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/09/a-new-threat-to-generat=
ivity.html
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
