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March 19th, 2009 at 03:47pm
Under Advocacy
The US Patent and Trademark Office recently published a patent application from IBM entitled System for electronic voting using a trusted computing platform, application number 2009/0076891. The abstract is as follows: An apparatus for executing a trusted electronic voting system under the control of an election authority comprising: at least one electronic voting machine; an [...]
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Tags: election, ibm, patent
By Ken Y-N
September 18th, 2008 at 02:12pm
Under Storage
From SearchSecurity comes the news that IBM are now offering hardware-based full disk encryption for customers using their System x servers. Their IBM System x VAULT, as it is known, leads the system manager through the encryption process, allowing one of four possible levels of security to be chosen, and costs around $1,200. How much [...]
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Tags: full disk encryption, ibm, seagate, x server, x vault
By Ken Y-N
March 16th, 2008 at 03:01pm
Under TCG
This article mentions the TCG only at the very end, but I thought this was an interesting develoment worthy of reporting. The current issue for intelligence analysts is that to maintain security between multiple tasks and networks and to prevent data leakage, they need one computer per network, filling up their desks with vast quantities [...]
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Tags: general dynamics, ibm, nsa
By Ken Y-N