Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks?

Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks?
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-31

Trusted computing proponents may have found their best argument yet for incorporating specialized security hardware into every computer system.

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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks? 2006-08-31
Anonymous

Trusted computing could possibly shield against the worst traditional attacks. But it could also introduce problems that if the TPM is targetted for explotation as protection for evil purposes.

That was the problem of the Sony Rootkit... It just helped bad people to hide bad things on computers,...

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Be aware of Trusted Computing! 2006-09-01
Daniele

Trusted Computing is presented by the Trusted Computing Group as a security tecnology. But it is a intrusive tecnology based on cryptographic data encryption whose private key is controlled by someone else than the legitimate system owner. So the owner do not have the full control of his system.

In...

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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks? 2006-09-01
Anonymous

And in other news, Cigarette compny funded studies used to find no link betwen smoking and cancer!...

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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks? 2006-09-01
Rob

This article demonstrates the common view that denying access to the network is the same thing as allowing access to the data. The first case is an example of a network-centric focus and its' failing is that once you're in, you can do anything. The other is an information-centric focus which sets ac...

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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks? 2006-09-03
Anonymous

give me an example of an attack that trusted computing can prevent, and ill tell you another way....

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Trusted computing a shield against worst attacks? 2006-09-03
Louw

Interesting, but isn't that why we have MAC addresses on network cards? Yes, you might say, but MAC addresses can be spoofed and you would be correct. But by adding another identification method to devices, you would just add another number/method that can be spoofed and therefore the Trusted Mode...

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