August 8th, 2008 at 02:43pm Under Advocacy
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 [...]
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Tags: linux
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August 6th, 2008 at 05:28pm Under General
On the MyTriniPhone blog a person called “Pumpkin” from the iPhone development team was quoted as saying the following:
More FUD is spread by this undying rumor of “Palladium” (or TPM) being used fully on Apple’s devices, making it impossible for you “to play online with legit buyers.” This is nothing but uninformed nonsense, and while [...]
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Tags: iphone, palladium, TPM, trustzone
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August 6th, 2008 at 01:28pm Under Advocacy
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 [...]
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Tags: express gate, intel, montevina, ngscb, palladium
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August 5th, 2008 at 03:09pm Under TPM
On the official Trusted Computing Group (TCG) blog, Rob Enderle posted about how security software should take advantage of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) built into many enterprise computers these days. Along with the fact that less than 10% of TPMs are turned on these days, Dell, who ship their business offerings with TPMs, recently [...]
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Tags: dell, rob enderle
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August 4th, 2008 at 01:56pm Under General
On the FCW blog I read a post by Mary Mosquera on the federal Chief Information Officers Council’s formation of a committee to investigate issues surrounding information assurance in the Web 2.0 world.
To summarise, they are looking at how to get users to do most of the work for them through social networking, shared document [...]
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August 1st, 2008 at 02:36pm Under TPM
On his blog, recluze (I assume he’s a he!) announced that he has joined the Java Community Process (JCP), specifically to take part in the definition of JSR321 (Java Specification Request) for Trusted Computing. This Trusted Computing Specification is described thus:
“The Trusted Computing Group developed a standard API for accessing Trusted Computing functionality from applications, [...]
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July 31st, 2008 at 02:57pm Under Advocacy
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 [...]
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Tags: dmca
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July 16th, 2008 at 02:27pm Under TNC
Steve Hanna of Jupiter Networks has posted his impressions on his recent visit to Japan on his Got the NAC blog. There he talked on Trusted Network Connect and other general Trusted Computing Group (TCG) issues to representitives from Japanese government and corporations, researchers, manufacturers and even a few journalists about the TCG technology.
On reflection, [...]
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Tags: interop, japan, juniper, steve hanna
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July 15th, 2008 at 02:13pm Under Advocacy
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 [...]
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July 14th, 2008 at 02:13pm Under TPM
Since almost every blogger seems to be jumping onto the iPhone bandwagon, I thought I’d weigh in too with this rumour that the new 3G Apple iPhone has a TPM (Trusted Platform Module):
Word is going around that the iPhone 3G has a Trusted Computing chip to detect tampering and thus disabling jailbreaking and SIM unlocking.
Although [...]
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Tags: iphone, trustzone, wireless forums
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