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Trusted Computing Rollout Hits the Desktop

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they're-watching-you dept.

Alsee writes "Previously appearing in a few rare laptops, ExtremeTech reports on the first major computer manufacturer making a full scale Trusted Computing rollout. Samsung will now install the Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) BIOS in every computer they make. Previous Slashdot reports on this BIOS include Phoenix Bios to Incorporate DRM and Microsoft Taking Over the BIOS."

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  1. What next. by Omni+Magnus · · Score: 5, Funny

    First I have to mod my XBOX, and now my laptop. When will it end?

    1. Re:What next. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Until Steve decides to put DRM in. If he wants, he can then call it closed firmware. When he does, all you mac users will line up to buy it, then post on Slashdot how great it is.

  2. Screencap... by stevens · · Score: 5, Funny
    Detecting USB controller...
    Detecting peripheral: PC104 Keyboard...
    Detecting untrusted user at Keyboard!
    20000 volts sent to keyboard...
    1. Re:Screencap... by execom · · Score: 2, Funny

      and it won't discharge your battery :)

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    2. Re:Screencap... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Look on the bright side, your keyboard would be sanitized. Only problem is that you'd be "sanitized" too.

    3. Re:Screencap... by Mattintosh · · Score: 2, Funny

      So that's why they had such problems with that in Star Trek...

  3. Next thing you know by captain+igor · · Score: 5, Funny

    We're all going to be surfing the net with a government approved "conduct officer" standing behind us.

    1. Re:Next thing you know by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 2, Funny
      We're all going to be surfing the net with a government approved "conduct officer" standing behind us.
      Kinda like this?
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  4. BIG BROTHER INSIDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    please nip this in the bud
    Spread the word: DO NOT BUY THEM
    send a clear message of dollars (or lack of them) that we do not want "BIG BROTHER INSIDE"

  5. Re:Backing up the entire OS by Agent+Orange · · Score: 2, Funny

    hefty chunk of space to reinstall in case of OS failure? The compressed kernel is only ~30-40MB and apt-get does the rest!

    ohhhh....must be that _other_ OS.

  6. The question is though, by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 3, Funny

    who the hell would buy a Samsung computer anyway?

  7. Re:Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant... by Pumpernickle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally! I meet someone who agrees with my plan to make a beowulf cluster of TI-85s!

    How's the processing speed on it? :)

  8. Re:Not a PC - UnPersonal Computer by Jtheletter · · Score: 2, Funny
    That dawn has already happened, it's called any MyDoom.x infected windows box which is now a port for spammers.

    This is Bob Barker reminding you to help control the spam population and have your operating system spayed or neutered. (patch patch patch!)

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  9. Boycott! Boycott! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No more computers from Samsung...er..wait...when did Samsung start making computers???

  10. I've a TC bios in my computer by 0x54524F4C4C · · Score: 2, Funny


    Got it 2 weeks ago while travelling to South Korea. The Samsung desktop was pretty heavy to handle in the return trip, but I think it was worth the trouble. Now I have a computer that can only run the software that Microsoft allows, so no viruses or open source suspicious code will run on it. This feature is what I was waiting for. Now I won't need to run antiviruses and firewalls just to make my computer safe, while taking over resources from other applications. I wonder if Linux will be able to copy this feature, or if its developers will steal code as they did with SCO.

  11. Re:Whoops there goes another rubber tree plant... by TrentL · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well it's time to add Samsung to the anticorporate do not buy shitlist.

    I wish I was a regular consumer of Samsung products so that I could stop buying them now.

  12. Re:I'm building a computer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Indeed... I was about to buy a new Samsung monitor next week.

    Posted as "anonymous" because I don't want my girlfriend to know I bought a monitor while she was gone....

  13. First account from a Microsoft sales rep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Here is a fictious first account from a Microsoft sales rep:

    SECRETARY: Sir, the Microsoft sales rep is here for a walk-in appointment.

    MANUFACTURER: Tell him I'm busy and reschedule.

    SECRETARY: Sir, he says its important- something about a new product.

    MANUFACTURER (to secretary): Send him right in.

    MANUFACTURER (to sales rep): Hi, what can I do for you?

    MSFT SALES REP: Let me tell you about an offer you can't refuse....

    MANUFACTURER (gulps)

  14. Re:The race is off by computational+super · · Score: 2, Funny

    According to the article, the DRM chip creates a "partition that Windows won't be able to access". If that's true, I want a PC where everything is controlled by the DRM chip. Then I could trust my computer.

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  15. What I want to know is.. by f0rt0r · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who this 'Average User' guy is. He needs some serious computer training! Anyone have his email address?

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