Big 3 Roll Out 'Trusted Mobile Platform'

An anonymous reader writes "In an effort to enhance the security of 'advanced' e-commerce services in mobile devices and guard against viruses and other software attacks, NTT DoCoMo, Intel, and IBM have jointly released a security specification known as the 'Trusted Mobile Platform.' The spec is said to define a set of hardware and software components that can be built into devices to provide varying degrees of security. Implementation of the platform is said to consist of applying well-established, strong security techniques to hardware and software architectures, resulting in a trusted execution environment that protects the device at boot time and during device operation. The hspec is available ere."

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The next 2 years

[Anonymous Coward]

13.9 months: Someone releases a trivial universal patch to bypass execution checks.
14 months: Big 3 release compatible S/W and H/W
14.01 months: Slashdot breaks news of patch which renders it useless.
14.1 months: CNN breaks the news.
14.2 months: Whoever releases the patch goes to jail for a long time while anyone who wants to do damage to your hardware anyway just patches their executable and releases.
24 months: Big companies announce another form of bulletproof security.