The Promise and Peril of Palladium

The Promise and Peril of Palladium
Tim Mullen, 2003-03-17

Whether Microsoft's ambitious project is a security solution or a Trojan horse depends much on the company's intentions.

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The Promise and Peril of Palladium 2003-03-17
Joseph Finley

Although I do credit Microsoft for much that has happened in the last 20 years, good and bad. I read this article nodding my head at each point Tim makes. Good read to keep the mind open.
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The Promise and Peril of Palladium 2003-03-18
blacklight (1 replies)

If roads to hell could be paved with good intentions, then we have the potential to build a couple of super highways here. However, technology has always been a double edged sword. On the plus side, the NSA might be very interested in the Palladium concept even if confidence in the trustworthiness s...

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Palladium, Longhorn, Memphis -- big secret code names 2003-03-22
Linux Torvald (2 replies)

If you tend to Microsoft product you are not a "Security Professional" you're nothing more than the "Patch Boy" keeping an eye out for the hourly patches, installing them, trying to uninstall them when they break the system, reinstalling them and on and on and on.

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Palladium, Longhorn, Memphis -- big secret code names 2003-03-26
blacklight

I'd say that NT was definitely a giant security hole, but it seems that Windows 2000 is a clear improvement - if only because Microsoft ripped off so much code from BSD Unix. With Windows 2000, MS has moved away from proprietary b.s. such as LAN Manager and netbios and actually joined open standards...

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Palladium, Longhorn, Memphis -- big secret code names 2003-03-26
Anonymous

Please. Keeping up with the ridiculous amounts of buffer overflows and trojanized shit in Linux such as sendmail, bind, apache, ssh, etc. is far more of a headache. If open source is so secure answer me why so many high profile software distributions like the above get hacked and replaced with troja...

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The Promise and Peril of Palladium 2003-03-21
Anonymous

The concept of a trusted computing base TCB has been around for at least 30 years. Despite many papers, talks, etc over these many years we've never gotten anywhere except in highly specialized systems. Sure, there have been B and A security machines, but not on general hardware.

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The Promise and Peril of Palladium 2003-03-23
Anonymous (1 replies)

this reminds me of the ol' Ben Franklin quote; those who would give up certain liberties to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither. palladium imposes too strict of a structure for me to sing it's praises....

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The Promise and Peril of Palladium 2003-03-25
Anonymous

You are right. Deadman switches on power equipment, fast trip circuit breakers, air-brakes on trucks. All of these items limit my liberty. I cannot use the underlying item as "freely" as I'd like, they have limits. So, I must eschew them....

I'm not sure that a technology that allows us to im...

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