Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86

[Peter Gutmann]

John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> 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.

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