I'd call this news announcement about Intel creating a "run known good" code facility about as credible as the joke that Otellini told his minions to "go buy a copy of McAfee", and they didn't hear the "copy of" part.
Noone will tolerate an Intel-moderated walled garden. Only Apple has customers with a bad enough case of stockholm syndrome to tolerate that sort of nonsense. Ian. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Peter Gutmann Sent: Wed 15-Sep-10 2:03 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86 John Gilmore <[email protected]> writes: >Let me guess -- to run anything but Windows, you'll soon have to jailbreak >even laptops and desktop PC's? Naah, we're perfectly safe, like every other similar attempt after 5-10 years of effort and several hundred million dollars down the drain it'll come to nothing. I guess that's one silver lining of the corollary to "We can't secure PCs against the bad guys", which is "We can't 'secure' them against their owners either" (with the rider "... although we can cause a lot of cost and inconvenience in trying"). Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
