With regard to Apple, Microsoft will ALWAYS fail at this contest.
Microsoft is built around and "Enterprise Sales Division". The existence of such a monstrosity is the death-knell for any company of tech-innovators.
Apple has no such - and they are overturning MS in the "home turf" of corporate business customers. They do so without creating a separate business line of devices, "Enterprise" software or the RFQ-response configuration choices, beloved by hardware vendors selling to corporations.
Microsoft sold out to ideas about business and capital very early - and were always based out of a Harvard Business School background - without the real hacker DNA. Ballmer never sold Billy's blue boxes, to start their enterprise...:-)
Since 2001 MS spent a couple dozen BILLION on R&D. Yet they capitalized on nothing - despite ensconcing the best and brightest in world-class labs and facilities. Every "innovation" from MS has been an acquisition (TellMe, Kinect) or a "Me too" (.net, Windows imaging model, Silverlight, HyperV...)
Ballmer's bruised ego is not enough of a motivating force to make any difference here. I look forward with relish to Microsoft's continued, punishing humiliation. There is really no other company so deserving of becoming the next RIM.
The funniest thing in the world is that people think they know what's going on, while accepting intermediaries for versions of events, that have a vested stake in the narrative. When this is explained to them in any way, the situation is dismissed as "conspiracy theory" or "wingnuttery".
Have you ever considered these "Science Hating Anarchists" to be targeted assassinations by corporate/state actors who choose to smear an "anti-state" movement - which almost doesn't actually exist?:-)
TPM is useless to a clustered virtual private cloud or distributed data center. Sorry. I exaggerate.
It is nearly useless. There are Geolocation possibilities but they are inelegant.
The tying of runtime images to specific hardware is 180 degrees contrary to the cloud VM use case.
Any intermediation by the software layer to solve 1-to-many and many-to-1 issues will largely deprecate the value of hardware key store and validatiion.
USA == Drone Warfare, Phosphorus Bombardment of Civilian Populations, Depleted Uranium, Prevetor of Land Mine Ban, Napalm Villages, Only Use of Atom Bomb, Moro Massacre, etc.
Al Qaeda? A useful instrument of CIA operations.
Obama? Best president the CIA ever placed - better than Bush Sr.
This serves the interest of every RENT TAKER on your PC - and does so by depriving YOU, the "owner" of the machine. Your choice is limited, to created guarantee of revenue to certain corporations.
Mind you, now. Shuttleworth is either naive - or playing a sacrifice move in the Chess game. This is an incremental step towards the death of Linux/BSD/etc on general-purpose hardware. It is a CRITICAL step - the direction of the game will be decided on how this plays.
It's to prevent loading a compromised kernel image. A signed boot-loader chain will only load if uncompromisable with cryptographically verified signatures and checksums.
But this is not the threat to most users, most of the time.
And? If they are dumb or mistaken enough to get an infection that will compromise their OS image and ring-0 loadable software? They are going to be compromised in OTHER WAYS that will NEVER touch the system image. Secure system boot is a good way to protect a boot-loader for encrypted volumes - but not even needed for this to be effective.
It is a security chimera - with more opportunity for mistakes and misuse than protection.
Ask yourself, what percentage of a system's time and lifecycle are spent in boot? What percentage of the binary runtime image is loaded in this process?
"Secure boot" is FAKE SECURITY whose ACTUAL risk is GREATER than its SUPPOSED benefit. Lock boot images, and the real security problems for persisting on a host and hiding activity will only move to the next rung on this ladder.
The only thing "Secured" is vendor lock-in.
Sure, you can detect a compromised kernel at boottime. That is a FRACTIONAL coutermeasure, to actual risk. EVERY driver and ring-0 loadable module needs also to be signed. It's bullsht, in the real computing world - unless you have an XBox or iPad model.
The most interesting aspect of this story, NOT HIGHLIGHTED IN THE SUMMARY, is that this was discovered by volunteers on the TOR project - and was being used as a compromise of a TOR node.
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Disruptive to Microsoft shareholders....
But at 22 bucks a pop, they don't have much to lose.
With regard to Apple, Microsoft will ALWAYS fail at this contest.
Microsoft is built around and "Enterprise Sales Division". The existence of such a monstrosity is the death-knell for any company of tech-innovators.
Apple has no such - and they are overturning MS in the "home turf" of corporate business customers. They do so without creating a separate business line of devices, "Enterprise" software or the RFQ-response configuration choices, beloved by hardware vendors selling to corporations.
Microsoft sold out to ideas about business and capital very early - and were always based out of a Harvard Business School background - without the real hacker DNA. Ballmer never sold Billy's blue boxes, to start their enterprise... :-)
Since 2001 MS spent a couple dozen BILLION on R&D. Yet they capitalized on nothing - despite ensconcing the best and brightest in world-class labs and facilities. Every "innovation" from MS has been an acquisition (TellMe, Kinect) or a "Me too" (.net, Windows imaging model, Silverlight, HyperV...)
Ballmer's bruised ego is not enough of a motivating force to make any difference here. I look forward with relish to Microsoft's continued, punishing humiliation. There is really no other company so deserving of becoming the next RIM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t8NZhl-ogoY
Whatever do you mean, BUSyqtH? ;-)
The funniest thing in the world is that people think they know what's going on, while accepting intermediaries for versions of events, that have a vested stake in the narrative. When this is explained to them in any way, the situation is dismissed as "conspiracy theory" or "wingnuttery".
Have you ever considered these "Science Hating Anarchists" to be targeted assassinations by corporate/state actors who choose to smear an "anti-state" movement - which almost doesn't actually exist? :-)
Operation Gladio
Operation Paperclip
Operation Mockingbird
Those are just a few of the "limited hangouts", admissions that hide greater sins. Get yourself at least a little true skepticism!
HITLER!
Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, HITLER?
What the fuck did you expect? No Soviets to fight... Now we do what we wanted to!
Did I forget to Godwin the thread? HITLER! :-)
This message brought to you by the people who watched Brazil and THX 1138, and read JG Ballard along with Orwell.
Are you talking 'bout the knackers?
MEEPT!
These are still the macroeconomic superpowers - that created and acted through large states in the past, and now joust through their proxies.
Yep. A laptop technology - salvaged from the wreckage of NGSCB.
Win 8 will be a small commercial success.
Not on any merits of its own, nor of technologies it enables - nor of demand by any real market.
Microsoft could spend as much to promote new standard mattress-sizes, and have equivalent adoption.
TPM is useless to a clustered virtual private cloud or distributed data center. Sorry. I exaggerate.
It is nearly useless. There are Geolocation possibilities but they are inelegant.
The tying of runtime images to specific hardware is 180 degrees contrary to the cloud VM use case.
Any intermediation by the software layer to solve 1-to-many and many-to-1 issues will largely deprecate the value of hardware key store and validatiion.
Value human life?
USA == Drone Warfare, Phosphorus Bombardment of Civilian Populations, Depleted Uranium, Prevetor of Land Mine Ban, Napalm Villages, Only Use of Atom Bomb, Moro Massacre, etc.
Al Qaeda? A useful instrument of CIA operations.
Obama? Best president the CIA ever placed - better than Bush Sr.
Yes.
Just as it was planned by the Heritage Foundation.
Private institution.
The invisible hand bribes lawmakers and sets the penalties for non-compliance.
This just pushed wars underground.
This is what creates FARC, AL Qaeda and KLA, etc.
Bingo.
This serves the interest of every RENT TAKER on your PC - and does so by depriving YOU, the "owner" of the machine. Your choice is limited, to created guarantee of revenue to certain corporations.
Mind you, now. Shuttleworth is either naive - or playing a sacrifice move in the Chess game. This is an incremental step towards the death of Linux/BSD/etc on general-purpose hardware. It is a CRITICAL step - the direction of the game will be decided on how this plays.
Boot sector virus is not the target, to be fair.
It's to prevent loading a compromised kernel image. A signed boot-loader chain will only load if uncompromisable with cryptographically verified signatures and checksums.
But this is not the threat to most users, most of the time.
And? If they are dumb or mistaken enough to get an infection that will compromise their OS image and ring-0 loadable software? They are going to be compromised in OTHER WAYS that will NEVER touch the system image. Secure system boot is a good way to protect a boot-loader for encrypted volumes - but not even needed for this to be effective.
It is a security chimera - with more opportunity for mistakes and misuse than protection.
Ask yourself, what percentage of a system's time and lifecycle are spent in boot? What percentage of the binary runtime image is loaded in this process?
"Secure boot" is FAKE SECURITY whose ACTUAL risk is GREATER than its SUPPOSED benefit. Lock boot images, and the real security problems for persisting on a host and hiding activity will only move to the next rung on this ladder.
The only thing "Secured" is vendor lock-in.
Sure, you can detect a compromised kernel at boottime. That is a FRACTIONAL coutermeasure, to actual risk. EVERY driver and ring-0 loadable module needs also to be signed. It's bullsht, in the real computing world - unless you have an XBox or iPad model.
The most interesting aspect of this story, NOT HIGHLIGHTED IN THE SUMMARY, is that this was discovered by volunteers on the TOR project - and was being used as a compromise of a TOR node.
The only solution is for Microsoft to acquire RIM.
Then, the shitstorm will be perfect.
Continuing to fund a search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
It calls into question the claims that terrestrial intelligence does exist, itself.
It is only our PHONES that SUCK.
Signal? Meet noise!
Yet, Roman Polanski walks freely among us...