AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS

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AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS

Posted by michael on Thursday January 9, 2003 @07:46AM from the here-it-comes dept.

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."

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War on terror by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-09 07:50 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
1. Re:War on terror by oPless · 2003-01-09 12:05 · Score: 3, Funny
  
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Yeah, so I'm offtopic by Chocolate+Teapot · 2003-01-09 07:54 · Score: 5, Funny

"American Megatrends" appears to be an anagram of "reincarnated smegma". Just felt the urge to share that,

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Re:What isnt stated by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-09 07:55 · Score: 5, Funny

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!
I hate to say it by jayhawk88 · 2003-01-09 08:00 · Score: 3, Funny

...but does this mean *BSD really is dying, and all those trolls have been right all along?
Windows incompatibility by Ilan+Volow · 2003-01-09 08:15 · Score: 3, Funny

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?

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Re:Right... by fwr · 2003-01-09 08:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Amazingly, it only takes six Microsoft employees to product +5 posts. Think about it!
Black boxes by vidnet · 2003-01-09 08:30 · Score: 5, Funny

These new "features" scare me. From what I gather, it's a roll of duct tape to further seal the black box computer. I've never liked devices that function according to ye olde proprietary model:
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!
Re:digital signature? by MikeDX · 2003-01-09 08:30 · Score: 4, Funny

The promise has been made that the user, or at least the OEM, can add trusted signers.

So does this mean I can remove the microsoft signatures to prevent any microsoft code being run at all? :) Gimme!
Nothing to worry about... by Eric+Damron · 2003-01-09 09:04 · Score: 3, Funny

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.

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Re:BUT FOR HOW LONG!?!?!?!?! by Anne+Thwacks · 2003-01-09 09:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Hold on ... If it boots windows, why would anyone trust it?

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