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RE: Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ian.farquhar@rsa.com)
Wed Sep 15 08:31:15 2010
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:22:39 -0400
From: <ian.farquhar@rsa.com>
To: <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, <gnu@toad.com>
I'd call this news announcement about Intel creating a "run known good" =
code facility about as credible as the joke that Otellini told his =
minions to "go buy a copy of McAfee", and they didn't hear the "copy of" =
part.
Noone will tolerate an Intel-moderated walled garden. Only Apple has =
customers with a bad enough case of stockholm syndrome to tolerate that =
sort of nonsense.
Ian.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-cryptography@metzdowd.com on behalf of Peter Gutmann
Sent: Wed 15-Sep-10 2:03 AM
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com; gnu@toad.com
Subject: Re: Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86
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John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> writes:
>Let me guess -- to run anything but Windows, you'll soon have to =
jailbreak
>even laptops and desktop PC's?
Naah, we're perfectly safe, like every other similar attempt after 5-10 =
years
of effort and several hundred million dollars down the drain it'll come =
to
nothing. I guess that's one silver lining of the corollary to "We can't
secure PCs against the bad guys", which is "We can't 'secure' them =
against
their owners either" (with the rider "... although we can cause a lot of =
cost
and inconvenience in trying").
Peter.
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