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August 20th, 2010 at 03:51pm
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The Guardian recently decided to publish an article from apparently a journalism student entitled We should all be using free software, but the article was not much more than a hastily cobbled-together from Wikipedia overview of Free Software worthy of a third-rank Linux blog, not a national newspaper’s web site. Let’s look at a few [...]
Continue Reading Guardian journalist attacks TPM and everything else
Tags: guardian
By Ken Y-N
August 16th, 2010 at 03:59pm
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Next month, on September 14th to 16th 2010, the National Security Agency will be hosting a Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition in Orlando, Florida, and naturally the TCG will be there as one of the Bronze Sponsors. To whet your appetite, first there is the TCG’s press release describing how the NSA’s High Assurance Platform [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing Group at the upcoming NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition
Tags: nsa
By Ken Y-N
July 6th, 2010 at 04:01pm
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There’s an interesting blog post that came to my attention, where Mister Reiner decides to visit the Trusted Computing Group’s web site, but finds he doesn’t like it. I agree with most of his criticisms, and I’ve chucked in my two cents. Please pay him a visit too.
Continue Reading Mister Reiner doesn’t like the TCG web site
Tags: mister reiner, web site
By Ken Y-N
June 28th, 2010 at 03:55pm
Under Advocacy+ TPM
A draft from the US Government proposes an "identity ecosystem", according to this post on Government Computer News. The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace discusses how both the public and private sector can use a trusted identity for more secure online transactions. The big picture is: In the envisioned identity ecosystem individuals, organizations, [...]
Continue Reading Trusted identity ecosystem proposed for the USA
Tags: government computer news, identity
By Ken Y-N
June 7th, 2010 at 02:54pm
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This September from the 14th to the 16th at Orlando Florida, the USA’s National Security Agency invites you to: attend the first NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition hosted by the Trusted Computing Division of the NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center (NCSC), in partnership with the High Assurance Platform® (HAP) Program Office. The theme for this [...]
Continue Reading NSA holding a Trusted Computing conference
Tags: nsa
By Ken Y-N
May 4th, 2010 at 03:30pm
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The official Trusted Computing Group blog (please, please fix your RSS feed!) recently published an article on Trusted Computing in the Cloud, highlighting how some of the key features that the TCG provide may be used within a cloud environment. For more details, the TCG has produced a White Paper on this very subject, entitled [...]
Continue Reading The Cloud and Trusted Computing
Tags: cloud computing
By Ken Y-N
March 24th, 2010 at 04:06pm
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Here’s a video from the Cloud Connect conference that took place earlier this month, where an interview was conducted by David Berlind with Brian Berger of the TCG and Wave Systems: The original source on InformationWeek is here.
Continue Reading Video: How Trusted Platform Modules could improve cloud security
Tags: cloud computing
By Ken Y-N
March 11th, 2010 at 04:00pm
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I just discovered that there’s a Wave Systems channel out there, and their latest video is on Full Disk Encryption and Wave Systems management software.
Continue Reading Wave Systems also have a YouTube video channel
Tags: wave, youtube
By Ken Y-N
February 22nd, 2010 at 05:14pm
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I noticed an interesting post on LWN.net about Nokia’s new Maemo operating system, as presented at FOSDEM’10. The description of the way that the system boots, such that it can distinguish between a trusted system that allows trust-related facilities to operate and an untrusted system that allows user kernels to run but doesn’t support security-sensitive [...]
Continue Reading Nokia’s Maemo and Trusted Computing
Tags: fosdem, maemo, nokia
By Ken Y-N
February 15th, 2010 at 02:32pm
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. I am disappointed that there doesn’t seem to be an official comment from Infineon on their web site regarding this attack.
Continue Reading As Oscar Wilde once said
Tags: infineon, oscar widle
By Ken Y-N