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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, the rootkits actual operation was mostly harmless(IMHO not totally harmless).

The most important question to ask is... Is trusted computing transperent, so we can protect, detect and remove unwanted elements from it? Because what happens if somekind of malware infects something under the protection of a TPM. A simple coding error in some software part could introduce new attacks and it could get hard for security professionals protect against that.

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