Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86

[ian.farquhar at rsa.com]

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: owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com on behalf of Peter Gutmann
Sent: Wed 15-Sep-10 2:03 AM
To: cryptography at metzdowd.com; gnu at toad.com
Subject: Re: Intel plans crypto-walled-garden for x86
 
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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