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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:DRM by BadassJesus · · Score: 1, Redundant

    DRM will never work (as explained thousand times). What you can see or hear can be easily replicated. DRM failed and will fail again.

    Come up with fair prices and easy to use players as Apple did. And you've got win-win scenario without DRM even come into play.

  2. Hardware breaks? by ThePolkapunk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What happens when your hardware breaks?

    "Sorry, you're data's gone, we don't have copies of the private keys. Looks like you need to pay a hacker to crack the data for you."

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    Dear diary: Today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender.
  3. Re:Said by Mr.+Mindless · · Score: 0, Redundant

    repulicans socially liberal? are you insane?

    backing anti-gay-marriage amendments, anti-choice, trying damn hard to get the church into the state - and only one church in particular...

    that's socially liberal?

    killing sex-ed programs because they will encourage premarital sex?

    defintely socially libaral...... yeah.

    today's republicans are southern white christians doing everything they can and spending every dollar they can to bring our country to their view of perfection, which mimics their conservitive christian backgrounds.

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    - MM