October 16th, 2009 at 03:44pm Under TPM
No, it’s not the latest Halloween movie, but instead one part of a very interesting post on the Invisible Things Labs blog by Joanna Rutkowska on Evil Maid goes after TrueCrypt! The Evil Maid scenario is a laptop computer with disk encryption left in a hotel room. The first day, the Evil Maid boots off [...]
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May 28th, 2009 at 02:44pm Under Advocacy
Joanna from Invisible Things Labs recently published on her blog a set of slides on Trusted Computing thoughts. The set is a huge 150 pages long, but each page is nice and easy to digest and it can be got through at a good speed. It’s well worth a read as a summary of what [...]
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March 25th, 2009 at 03:46pm Under General
Joanna from the Invisible Things posted a thought-provoking post on trusting processors and other hardware. The thrust of the argument is that the more paranoid person is always sure to run open source software on their computer to ensure that there is little or no chance of backdoors being inserted into the code, but almost [...]
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