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January 19th, 2010 at 04:10pm
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The official Trusted Computing Group blog had a summary post setting the tone for the year, looking at whether this year will be the year Trusted Computing hits the mainstream. As highlighted, Full Disk Encryption is undoubtedly going to big this year, and the Greater China Regional Forum looks promising. If one considers the recent [...]
Continue Reading Will this year be The Year of Trusted Computing?
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By Ken Y-N
November 22nd, 2009 at 04:17pm
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As I suspected, after a positive article on openSUSE’s support for Trusted Computing, the backlash has come from the charmingly-entitled Boycott Novell blog. SUSE is sponsored by Novell, so given the name of the blog and the nature of the more ardent free software promoters it’s not surprising when they say things like: Summary: TPM [...]
Continue Reading SUSE Linux is stealing your rights!
Tags: linux, opensuse
By Ken Y-N
November 22nd, 2009 at 04:02pm
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Here’s an interesting article I stumbled across on eWeek about a security wish list for the next version of Internet Explorer. Scott Crawford, an analyst with Enterprise Management Associates, had this to say: "This [IE taking a more proactive approach to stopping attempts to compromise the browser] is in view with respect to the OS [...]
Continue Reading Making Internet Explorer more trusted
Tags: eweek, internet explorer, microsoft
By Ken Y-N
November 19th, 2009 at 12:48pm
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Cloud Computing is one of these wooly terms that can mean just about anything, but in this article in Reuters’ Great Debate series Piers Linney tries to define it. Cloud Computing and Trusted Computing have quite a bit in common, as Rainier, one of the commenters, points out: A necessary condition for cloud computing to [...]
Continue Reading Cloud Computing is the future
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By Ken Y-N
November 19th, 2009 at 12:30pm
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The article in question on Reporting the World Over covers openSUSE’s support for the TPM and the OpenTC project. The openSUSE aspect is covered by this quote: “openSUSE is now the first operating system to offer full TC support,” Petautschnig notes. “Until now, TC had been implemented for specific applications, such as Microsoft’s BitLocker hard [...]
Continue Reading Surprisingly, but also pleasantly, positive article about Trusted Computing and Linux
Tags: opensuse, opentc
By Ken Y-N
November 19th, 2009 at 12:17pm
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Please take the following report from China Economic Net entitled Make digital life safe and worriless with a suitably large pinch of salt! Note that the Chinese TCM, Trusted Cryptography Module, is not related to the Trusted Computing Group’s TPM, Trusted Platform Module! Sample quotes are: There is no need to worry about password stealing [...]
Continue Reading China succeeds with trusted computing
Tags: china, tcm
By Ken Y-N
November 17th, 2009 at 03:12pm
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There’s probably a good argument against me republishing nonsense like this, I suppose, but I do like to highlight what "the other side" thinks of Trusted Computing. This time it was Miguel on Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org talking about how Trusted Computing is responsible for banning modded XBoxes: Trusted computing, that practice where when you buy [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing versus the XBox 360
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By Ken Y-N
November 12th, 2009 at 03:30pm
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At LinuxAlt 2009 at Brno in the Czech Republic Michal Schmidt gave a talk on Trusted Computing. The link is all in Czech, although I did see someone else describe it as rather good. Sorry, slow news day today…
Continue Reading Michal Schmidt on Trusted computing – in Czech…
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By Ken Y-N
October 11th, 2009 at 03:17pm
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General Dynamics C4 Systems, Great Bay Software, Lumeta and Wave Systems will be demonstrating their solutions for end-to-end enterprise security at the upcoming RSA Conference Europe 2009 on October 20th to 22nd at the Hilton Metropole, London. Specific demonstrations will show self encrypting drives for data protection, access control policy enforcement in the enterprise, detection [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing Group demonstrations for RSA Conference Europe 2009
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By Ken Y-N
October 8th, 2009 at 04:49pm
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I know that the Indian government is very interested in the issue of cyber security as it faces a lot of well-funded attacks from – well, I think we can all guess where from. So, I was not surprised to see an article from Interop Mumbai where various security threats were discussed, including sharing through [...]
Continue Reading Interop Mumbai discussions on security threats
Tags: interop, mumbai
By Ken Y-N