IBM Hardwires Encryption Into Chips

zenwarrior writes "Reported by CNET, a new chip technology termed Secure Blue by IBM will keep users' data encrypted and secured at virtually every moment on essentially anything in which the chip can be used. Data is even encrypted in RAM, leaving display for users' viewing as almost the last place it isn't encrypted. This has to be considered decidedly anti-Homeland Defense by the current administration. If so, when will we see it if ever?"

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Re:Pretty cool

[TheRaven64]

This sounds pretty paranoid, and easy to circumvent. No one is trying to ban OpenBSD in the US, for example, and it includes strong encryption (developed outside the USA), and is used on a number of router and firewalls.