[Remember the days of 'Intel Inside', and EPIC/PI's co-option of it to lobby against chip-identifiers, using the slogan 'Big Brother Inside'?
[Notes at http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/PrivCorp.html#BB [Do we really want to invite complete paralysis of information infrastructure, whether caused by authoritarian government, computer suppliers upset about late payments, software providers upset about copyright breaches, organised crime, disorganised crime / script kiddies, let alone plain old blunder? [If so, install a Titan chip.] Google touts Titan security chip to attract cloud clients Salvador Rodriguez itNews Aug 23 2017 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/google-touts-titan-security-chip-to-attract-cloud-clients-471492 >Titan scans hardware to ensure it has not been tampered with, Neal Mueller, >head of infrastructure product marketing for Google Cloud Platform, said in a >recent interview. If anything has been changed, Titan chip will prevent the >machine from booting. -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
