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April 08, 2004TCPA: The Mother(board) of all Big BrothersBack in November I had a post about NGSCB and BIOS vendors in response to some paranoia Alan had and never got around to pointing out some of the benefits and drawbacks to trustworthy computing. I have been following the field of trusted computing for some time, especially how it relates to NGSCB in Longhorn and sometimes think more people need to know about it. Recently I came across an old presentation done at Defcon X by Lucky Green on "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance: The Mother(board) of all Big Brothers". I even found the original slide deck which paints an interesting picture on the subject. With information ranging from the Fritz chip (the Trusted Platform Module(TPM) that is being included in future motherboards) to the TCP boot process, there are some really good tidbits if you were new to the subject. It even goes on to discuss the Fritz Hollings Bill (S. 2048) and issues with the GPL that HP has in developing a TCPA-compliant version of Linux. And as usual if the GPL is used in an article which relates to anything remotely dealing with Microsoft Stallman has to have his say... "Treacherous computing is a major threat to our freedom". Anyways, if you are into learning more about TCPA or NGSCB you might be interested in this older, but still interesting slide deck on the subject. (PDF version of slides also available) Comments
Here is my take on NGSCB: http://www.csoonline.com/analyst/report2317.html. I'd be curious to hear your feedback. Pete Posted by: Pete at April 14, 2004 10:04 PM |
 
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