Microsoft Kills Off Its Trustworthy Computing Group

An anonymous reader writes Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group is headed for the axe, and its responsibilities will be taken over either by the company's Cloud & Enterprise Division or its Legal & Corporate Affairs group. Microsoft's disbanding of the group represents a punctuation mark in the industry's decades-long conversation around trusted computing as a concept. The security center of gravity is moving away from enterprise desktops to cloud and mobile and 'things,' so it makes sense for this security leadership role to shift as well. According to a company spokesman, an unspecified number of jobs from the group will be cut. Also today, Microsoft has announced the closure of its Silicon Valley lab. Its research labs in Redmond, New York, and Cambridge (in Massachusetts) will pick up some of the closed lab's operations.

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Re:Good

[WorBlux]

How else can you verify the integrity of firware + bootloader + kernel? It seems like a useful thing to me, if I'm the one who gets the keys.

Re:Good

[CanEHdian]

Oh, the MPAA, RIAA and BSA were screaming for it... the "trust" in "trusted computing" was that you as a "trusted computer" user could be trusted not to get around any kind of Digital Restrictions Management system... to be introduced once your head is already firmly stuck in the noose.