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January 19th, 2011 at 03:43am
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An article on ZeroPaid looks at a recent announcement from Intel, specifically: Intel is also upgrading its Wi-Di technology, which enables users to wirelessly transmit images and video from a PC to a high-definition TV. Users will now be able to stream 1080p content, an improvement from the previous 720p resolution. Users will also be [...]
Continue Reading Slightly confused (confusing?) but interesting article on content protection
Tags: drm, intel, zeropaid
By Ken Y-N
January 4th, 2011 at 05:44pm
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ComputerWorld (the Norwegian edition, for some reason!) published a summary of a report by the US International Trade Commission into intellectual property in China. Of interest to the blog is the US government’s view on the Trusted Computing Module, China’s home-grown Trusted Platform Module. One issue is China’s strategy of developing closed, national standards for [...]
Continue Reading US Trade Commission criticises China’s Trusted Computing Module
Tags: china, tcm, usitc
By Ken Y-N
December 29th, 2010 at 05:09pm
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Here’s a curiously interesting article from a small consulting service that recently attended an EU Trusted Computing Seminar and came away rather impressed by the capabilities of the Trusted Platform Module, or perhaps more by the potential for the company to sell TPM-based consultancy…
Continue Reading Lifecycle Professional Services meets Trusted Computing, likes it
Tags: lifecycle professional services, wave
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2010 at 04:31pm
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MEDEA+ Trusted Secure Computing is a European project for developing a set of hardware and software components for computer and other device security, according to an article by Eurasia Review. It’s a useful backgrounder for practical applications of Trusted Platform Module-based and TPM-like systems. Moreover, the components developed in the project, have been designed in [...]
Continue Reading A look at the MEDEA+ Trusted Secure Computing project
Tags: eurasia review, medea+
By Ken Y-N
November 5th, 2010 at 04:42pm
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The official TCG web site has three short (one minute each) talks by Dr. Robert Thibadeau of Seagate, Dr. Michael Willett of Samsung, and Steve Hanna of Juniper Networks (can I suggest changing the not-very-flattering key frame for that video?) on various issues.
Continue Reading Three new short videos from the Trusted Computing Group
Tags: video
By Ken Y-N
October 8th, 2010 at 05:00pm
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There was a recently-published interview on the New New Internet with Dr. William Luti of Digital Management, discussing cyber security in the US government. To me, most of the material is familiar, but it’s nice to see more people discussing openly that we, the good guys, are in danger of losing the war to hackers. [...]
Continue Reading An interview with Dr. William Luti of Digital Management
Tags: digital management, nsa
By Ken Y-N
October 2nd, 2010 at 02:53pm
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America’s National Security Agency recently issued a press release describing the highlights from the recent National Security Agency’s first Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition. The NSA are developing a High Assurance Platform (HAP) that uses standard off-the-shelf components but provides the sort of security they need, and Trusted Computing and the Trusted Computing Group are [...]
Continue Reading NSA reports on their recent Trusted Computing Conference
Tags: hap, nsa
By Ken Y-N
September 29th, 2010 at 03:46pm
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This month Wave Systems have published four videos, a white paper and a case study on Bitpipe.com on various TPM-related topics, namely: Trusted Computing: What the Future Looks Like Trusted Computing: Deploying in a Mixed Environment Trusted Computing: How The Government Is Leading Adoption Trusted Computing: Considerations for Deploying in the Enterprise Network Security: How [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems publish a series of TPM-related videos
Tags: video, wave
By Ken Y-N
September 28th, 2010 at 04:01pm
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Computerworld recently reported on the recent NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition in Orlando, in particular about how a slow accreditation process is causing problems. In a very detailed article many of the advances in trusted computing for the National Security Agency are outlined, but as Bill Ross from General Dynamics pointed out: "The rapidly [...]
Continue Reading NSA accreditation holding up security advances
Tags: nsa
By Ken Y-N
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