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Re: WYTM - "but what if it was true?"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Kuethe)
Mon Jun 27 15:39:15 2005
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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:58:31 -0600
From: Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>
To: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
Cc: dan@geer.org, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 6/26/05, Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com> wrote:
> It is not necessary though that there exists an acceptable solution that
> keeps PC's with persistent stores secure. A bootable CD from a bank is
> an unexpectedly compelling option, as are the sort of services we're
> going to see coming out of all those new net-connected gaming systems
> coming out soon.
You just know that people won't want to totally reboot their machines
every time they want to bank, because that'll break their
excel+quicken+msmoney integrated finances. So they try make a bootable
HD partition, or run it under vmware, or copy the "trusted" client
off. These of course cannot be allowed by the banks if they want to
preserve the illusion of their secure banking app...
And now we have a market for cracked "trusted" banking clients, both
for phishers and lazy people... it's game copy protection wars all
over again. :)
--=20
GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
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