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September 1st, 2008 at 02:13pm
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Travis Meacham of Tom’s Games made a rather interesting post on how software piracy of games results in stronger Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection methods. He himself is neutral to the presence of DRM, saying he would much rather play a game and support the authors buy buying it, rather than the usual “stick it [...]
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Tags: drm, tom's games, travis meacham
By Ken Y-N
August 20th, 2008 at 12:14pm
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On the Dark Reading site, rapidly becoming my favourite Trusted Computing-related site, Sara Peters recently posted a follow-up to a recent story I reported on regarding why Trusted Computing is not taking off.
On their message board someone said this, prompting the blog post:
Perhaps it’s because trusted computing resolves just a small part of the data [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing is not a silver bullet
Tags: dark reading, sara peters
By Ken Y-N
August 19th, 2008 at 03:23pm
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I’ll directly steal the title from an article on the Dark Reading blog looking at why Trusted Computing is not taking off.
The article points out that a Trusted Platform Module, as available on many enterprise PCs, can do lots of things like access control, encryption, etc in hardware, making it much harder for the hacker [...]
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Tags: dark reading
By Ken Y-N
August 8th, 2008 at 02:43pm
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On his blog DBA Will, he rants on about how Linux is still difficult to configure, and he proclaims that the reason he wants to set it up is to save himself from Trusted Computing, which he defines thus:
It would have been nice to change my daily use machine to Linux in preparation for the [...]
Continue Reading Only Linux can save us from TPM!
Tags: linux
By Ken Y-N
August 6th, 2008 at 01:28pm
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For a change, some good news about trusted computing, this time from IT Pro and written by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe.
The article starts by painting a picture of having a second operating system on a PC that has a smaller feature set and will only run trusted applications, like Microsoft’s Palladium, or Next Generation [...]
Continue Reading Why isolated and trusted execution space is a good thing
Tags: express gate, intel, montevina, ngscb, palladium
By Ken Y-N
July 31st, 2008 at 02:57pm
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Sorry about the quiet patch recently, but I’m now back and refreshed from holiday, ready to do battle against yet more misconceptions, along with the usual news from the trusted computing world.
The first article to get my back up on my return was from Michael Tiemann writing on Open Source Initiative in an article entitled [...]
Continue Reading More Trusted Computing inaccuracies
Tags: dmca
By Ken Y-N
July 15th, 2008 at 02:13pm
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On the Pan European eParticipation Net blog I read an interesting post from Bengt Feil that cites a PDF document from Laquadrature.net saying thus:
… it may be that the law would allow the Commission to “impose technical standards on content filtering and monitoring computing so called ‘trusted computing’. The Commission would be able to give [...]
Continue Reading EU to legislate on trusted computing?
Tags: eu, pep-net
By Ken Y-N
July 3rd, 2008 at 04:53pm
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After CNET News Blog poo-pooed the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) earlier, now here is Information Week looking on the bright side. It’s basically the same story as before, but by tentatively sitting on the other side of the fence the contents are very much different. For example, here is what they say about the uses [...]
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By Ken Y-N
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:52pm
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Brian Berger from Wave Systems and Director of the Trusted Computing Group highlights some of the things you can do today with your Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and ends with the top ten uses for a TPM.
Multi-factor authentication: The TPM becomes one factor in allowing or denying access, so it can be combined with biometrics [...]
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Tags: brian berger
By Ken Y-N
July 2nd, 2008 at 08:45am
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The Ask Apache web site recently re-published Richard M Stallman’s “The Right to Read”, a slide down the slippery slope to DRM hell. There is an update from RMS himself which reveals that although he has the right to read the Trusted Computing Group’s specifications, he has not chosen to exercise this right.
I’ll quote the [...]
Continue Reading The Right, but not the Requirement, to Read
Tags: richard m stallman
By Ken Y-N
