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AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS
An anonymous reader writes "American Megatrends announced its 'trusted computing' Palladium BIOS on Jan 6. It seems that the encrypted BIOS' integrity will be verified by a special chip or flash ROM, and will in turn verify the 'authenticity, integrity and privacy' of the boot loader and the operating system. Does that mean such machines may refuse to boot any other non-'trusted' OS? After all, the list of supporting corporations include AMD, Intel, IBM, and HP, of whom we heard quite favourable statements about Linux (just for example -- *BSDs will be equally affected) so far."
This will go a long way towards the war on terror. Terrorists wont be able to install and use unauthorized OS's. This could potentially save thousands of lives.
"American Megatrends" appears to be an anagram of "reincarnated smegma". Just felt the urge to share that,
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
One of the key benefits of Palladium, of course, being a PC that boots up! People will really embrace Palladium's "booting PC" feature when compared to the "non-booting PC" features of the competition!
...but does this mean *BSD really is dying, and all those trolls have been right all along?
If it can only run operating systems that can be trusted, how the hell am I going to be able to get it work with Windows?
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
Amazingly, it only takes six Microsoft employees to product +5 posts. Think about it!
"Provided you only use Palladium-approved hardware. And applications. And operating system. And you don't want to make your own software. Or MP3's."
Only a terrorist would NOT want Palladium. And playing MP3s contributes to the Axis of Evil and terrorism.
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... flash memory that contains the "TPM" ...
You cannot contain The Phantom Menace! (tm)
1. Input
2...499. None of your your damn business
500. Output
"Trusted computing", hah! Sure, the apps might trust each other and the system, but I won't!
The promise has been made that the user, or at least the OEM, can add trusted signers.
:) Gimme!
So does this mean I can remove the microsoft signatures to prevent any microsoft code being run at all?
*knocking on door* "Hello" "Yeah my name is Agent X and this is Agent Y we are from Microsoft's Anti Piracy Unit" "Well what do you want" "We Understand you ware watching Back Door Anal Sluts 9 on your parents computer" "You Guys are fucked up" "Can We see your computer sir" (Realizing they had made a mistake while looking over the computer's contents because the man is a Buhdist) Just proving that nothing is fool proof, and shit happens.
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Excellent. Now it will take longer to boot up than it does to crash. Well, that race is finally over.
Sure I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?
Hey I just got a prototype of the trusted computing BIOS. It's not so bad. As far as I can tell I can do all the things that I use to.
No one is controlling my hardware but me. I still worry about the way that Microsoft is &$^^ *$(#@) ()%)$! but other than that it's not too bad.
Oh yeah and I still have concerns about how the government is )^%$ $^*** $#*%$ &^. (&$# %$*@% (^% . But I'm sure we'll be able to stop that.
We do need to watch the entertainment industry also because they're still trying to #@*^ %#^ &$ (&$%)*%.
Yep these new BIOS are nothing to worry about.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Hold on ... If it boots windows, why would anyone trust it?
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I'm gald you don't think your posts are worth reading either.