Comments on: Microsoft’s General Manager of ‘Trustworthy’ Computing Quits as TPM Gets Cracked

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:08:38 +0000

I didn't know about Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District. Thanks for that.

By: your_friend

your_friend — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:59:07 +0000

There is nothing trustworthy about any non free software. Have you seen this developing scandal, where a US school system used school issued laptop cameras to spy on grade school students? Remember the , in Lenovo/TPM roll out NSW and other school systems [2]? Look at the same bogus excuses and language that inverts the trust relationship and makes the child the untrustworthy criminal to be monitored. If ever there was a good case against non free software and TPM, this is it. This is the future non free software companies want for us and why they killed the OLPC program. Instead of a roll out of millions of cheap, free software devices that encourage sharing and real learning, we see expensive deployments of user hostile software that's not even well suited for corporate cube. Sharing eliminates the power of incumbent publishers and telco companies, so they hate your freedom.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:06:07 +0000

Well, thanks a lot for spotting this.

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:05:26 +0000

Thank you, one of these is what the link should have been pointing to.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:03:57 +0000

Here are some better links from the news (our reader sent a rootkit case):

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Hacker-extracts-crypto-key-from-TPM-chip-927077.html
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/02/10/tpm-security-cracked-wide-open/1
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1591069/ex-army-bloke-us-ready-cyber-war
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-OodvoFRhEcpfvnK5C7YL6JWJBQD9DO79A81

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:00:53 +0000

“he sent us last night regarding TPM getting cracked. ”
Last words point to an article unrelated to TPM.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:50:30 +0000

There is nothing “Trustworthy” about Windows.

And by the way, there is no confusion. I didn’t blend TPM with DRM (which also can relate to Tivoization) and the “Trustworthy Computing Group”.

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:31:04 +0000

““Trustworthy Computing Group,” eh? What an Orwellian title/name for the group.”
Don’t confuse Trustworthy Computing with Trusted Computing, only the latter is Orwellian.