January 18th, 2010 at 03:15pm Under TPM
Here’s a bit of a technically inaccurate but sufficiently curious post from The Register on Apple’s control over the software on the iPhone. The main thrust of the article is about the impending (or otherwise…) release of the iSlate or whatever the rumoured Apple tablet will be called, but they have this comment: Microsoft once [...]
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November 3rd, 2009 at 03:21pm Under MTM
There’s a bit of a buzz going around about this job posting from Apple, looking for an iPhone OS Platform Security Manager. The first paragraph of the job description is: The Core OS group is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on the platform security of iPhone OS. The [...]
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Tags: iphone, secure boot, trustzone
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July 20th, 2009 at 03:12pm Under MTM+ Virtualisation
Embedded Computing recently published an article by Steve Subar of Open Kernel Labs on mobile phone virtualization. This is a subject in which I have a lot of active interest, especially in relation to the Mobile Trusted Module and its associated Multi-Stakeholder Model. Open Kernel Labs’ OKL4 hypervisor has found its way into the two [...]
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Tags: android, iphone, open kernel labs
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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 [...]
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Tags: iphone, palladium, TPM, trustzone
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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 [...]
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Tags: iphone, trustzone, wireless forums
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