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IBM Hardwires Encryption Into Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-in-the-chip dept.

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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  1. Re:Pretty cool by Azarael · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If this type of technology gets blocked, then I hope that the same happens for DRM technology (unlikely) because it seems to me that they both do the same thing. In any case, I'm not sure how a gov't can mandate a type of information restriction (e.g. DRM) and make another practically identical restriction illegal. Even if you restrict access of the technology somehow, I'm sure that someone could find a way to slide their own material in anyway.

  2. Re:Clipper Chip??? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm directing my comments directly at you, not some mysterious bugbears like your favorite cartoon hobbyhorse. Not Clinton or anyone else you're insisting on dragging into this thread no matter how irrelevant - especially that straw man Clipper Chip jive that I never mentioned. I'm calling you out - where have you been with your treasured "freedom insurance"? Typing away. What are you waiting for?

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  3. Re:Clipper Chip??? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's typo-nazi bait. Congratulations!

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  4. Re:Clipper Chip??? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The facts are clearly biased against George W Bush." - the Daily Show (paraphrase)

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