Something fishy's going on (News.com)
But there's something fishy going on. Microsoft is doing its best to stall the document, and to ensure that it doesn't apply to Vista (formerly known as Longhorn), Microsoft's next-generation operating system." (See this LWN article for background on TPM chips and how they will be supported under Linux).
Posted Aug 31, 2005 15:51 UTC (Wed)
by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
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Posted Aug 31, 2005 16:34 UTC (Wed)
by thyrsus (guest, #21004)
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Such as your Linux based firewalls, anti-virus filters, etc. :-)
But above all, your security policies and practices.
Posted Sep 1, 2005 1:31 UTC (Thu)
by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
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If, at the debut of Vista, because of this behavior, the market hoists a collective international gesture in the direction of Redmond, then the document can be said to have applied to Vista, at least in a negative sense.Something fishy's going on (News.com)
I agree: the "market", that is, those who choose what to implement and how, will determine whether the document applies. No one building a secure environment can specify "we will use secure components, except for those available before date X", regardless of the significance of date X. If they are not functional or secure in themselves, some further component of the environment will have to make them functional and secure.Something fishy's going on (News.com)
No, I mean consumers. While large corporations may see some value in bowing to Redmond, I, for one, hope that consumers reject this stuff utterly.Something fishy's going on (News.com)