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Palladium deja vu? Bad ideas never die...

<<,,,"It's perfect," Enrique Salem, senior vice
president at Symantec, said in an interview...>>

It's perfect until it is hacked, which will take
about a day or two

>>...Intel is giving Symantec and other desktop
security software sellers a new sales pitch as
Microsoft readies its entry onto the security
market,...>>

Just the proprietary vendors? Just AV? How
about stuff like Spybot S&D, Clam and AVG, for
example. And Microsoft in the security
business??? Now there is a frightening thought.

>>...Microsoft is adding support for another,
more common hardware-based security technology to
Windows Vista: the Trusted Platform Module, or
TPM, which offers protected storage of encryption
keys, passwords and digital certificates...<<

Will this become another 'trusted computing'
thingy to block non Microsoft approved software
from running on Vista? I don't really want any
more of my box closed off.

>>...Companies including Symantec already sell
security appliances that run Linux, for
example...<<

Security appliances?? Security from what for
what? Security appliance running Linux
protecting Windows boxes? That would
be...amusing.

Posted by: richdave   Posted on: 04/25/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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