Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86

[John Gilmore]

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?

	John

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