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April 21st, 2008 at 01:51pm
Under Advocacy
I don’t know about you, but I find cheap shots at easy targets insulting to my intelligence. The story title is a take on the famous “No-one ever got sacked for buying IBM”, as although I am no fanboy for Microsoft myself, I get tired of seeing terms like Micro$oft and MicroShaft. The latest offended [...]
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By Ken Y-N
April 15th, 2008 at 01:33pm
Under End to End Trust
The “problem” with today’s internet users, as Scott Charney highlights in the “Establishing End-to-end Trust” white paper is that consumers want not just privacy, but also anonymity. Of course, the average user is relatively-easily identifiable from their IP address, but that’s a slightly different issue. He writes: “Ensuring that people can be identified raises the [...]
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By Ken Y-N
April 10th, 2008 at 03:17pm
Under End to End Trust
At the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco Microsoft’s top security strategists talked about security on the internet today and in the future. Microsoft admitted they cannot solve all the problems on their own, and called for wider support from IT and Internet communities to help expediate their efforts. The only way to restore trust [...]
Continue Reading Microsoft: internet needs smarter identity
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By Ken Y-N
April 10th, 2008 at 03:15pm
Under End to End Trust
At a keynote speech at the RSA Conference 2008 at San Francisco, Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, talked about Microsoft’s vision for End to End Trust. Initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) have laid the foundations for security, but now higher-level protocols need to be considered. One key idea is [...]
Continue Reading Microsoft: “Trust us!”
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By Ken Y-N
March 18th, 2008 at 03:02pm
Under TPM
After five years on the advisory panel for Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing initiative, ADT Mag interviewed Richard Kemmerer on his experiences working for the Redmond giant. His basic opinion is that although security has improved overall, there still is a long way to go. Soon after Microsoft came up with its “Trustworthy Computing” buzzword in 2002 [...]
Continue Reading Richard Kemmerer and Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory (TCAA) initiative
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By Ken Y-N