As with any disruptive mechanism, the original value proposition is driven lower and lower to the point where it is as commodity as the market it surplanted...I am thinking a dot.bangalore crash may be just around the corner.
And we are yet to see the real long term negative effects of short-sighted, cost driven offshoring.
The big difference here that you have to mod the Xbox360 to accept non approved controllers which is easy, but which manufacturer would build a controller just to sell to the 1% of the market that would be modding their xboxes.
M$ have created a classic chicken and egg situation here.
Forgetting the anti-M$ aspect for a moment (yes, hard for slashdotters), I think that this move is pretty ground breaking. It brings a secure/trusted model to the masses.
Think about it for the moment, there are very few simple solutions out there currently that can SECURELY* authenticate 2 devices/parties in such a manner.
Now extend this to the mass market - ship your customer a USB FOB with this functionality. Instant mutual auth.
* by securely, I mean using hardware based crypto where the costs/effort to break the security far exceed the benefits. Actually, I lie...the banking/payments markets are moving to the EMV standard (chip card). These mass issue and very cheap, yet provide heavy duty security.
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As with any disruptive mechanism, the original value proposition is driven lower and lower to the point where it is as commodity as the market it surplanted...I am thinking a dot.bangalore crash may be just around the corner. And we are yet to see the real long term negative effects of short-sighted, cost driven offshoring.
The big difference here that you have to mod the Xbox360 to accept non approved controllers which is easy, but which manufacturer would build a controller just to sell to the 1% of the market that would be modding their xboxes.
M$ have created a classic chicken and egg situation here.
Forgetting the anti-M$ aspect for a moment (yes, hard for slashdotters), I think that this move is pretty ground breaking. It brings a secure/trusted model to the masses.
Think about it for the moment, there are very few simple solutions out there currently that can SECURELY* authenticate 2 devices/parties in such a manner.
Now extend this to the mass market - ship your customer a USB FOB with this functionality. Instant mutual auth.
* by securely, I mean using hardware based crypto where the costs/effort to break the security far exceed the benefits. Actually, I lie...the banking/payments markets are moving to the EMV standard (chip card). These mass issue and very cheap, yet provide heavy duty security.