On Sep 13, 2010, at 11:58 57PM, John Gilmore wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/intels-walled-garden-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars > > "In describing the motivation behind Intel's recent purchase of McAfee > for a packed-out audience at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's Paul > Otellini framed it as an effort to move the way the company approaches > security "from a known-bad model to a known-good model." Otellini went > on to briefly describe the shift in a way that sounded innocuous > enough--current A/V efforts focus on building up a library of known > threats against which they protect a user, but Intel would live to > move to a world where only code from known and trusted parties runs on > x86 systems." > > Let me guess -- to run anything but Windows, you'll soon have to > jailbreak even laptops and desktop PC's? >
I've written a long blog post on this issue for the Concurring Opinions legal blog; see http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2010/09/a-new-threat-to-generativity.html --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com