The Trusted Computing Group is an industry consortium that has developed a hardware chip called the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). This video discusses the TPM, an attack, and some applications.
Widespread use of Trusted Computing will mark the end of the era in which users controlled their own systems. Personal computers will become sterile appliances, only running code approved by software publishers. Free software will no longer be interoperable with proprietary software as publishers move to lock down their file formats with the help of the TPM. Anyone who cares about the future of computing should read the papers by the EFF, Richard M Stallman and Ross Anderson.
The TPM chip adds another layer of security for Internet voting. The secure election server will be alerted if there is any malware in a voter's PC. Then the PC owner can be notified, and can debug the machine. Hurray!
Widespread use of Trusted Computing will mark the end of the era in which users controlled their own systems. Personal computers will become sterile appliances, only running code approved by software publishers. Free software will no longer be interoperable with proprietary software as publishers move to lock down their file formats with the help of the TPM. Anyone who cares about the future of computing should read the papers by the EFF, Richard M Stallman and Ross Anderson.
gumpish 11 months ago 2
INTERNET VOTING SECURITY.
The TPM chip adds another layer of security for Internet voting. The secure election server will be alerted if there is any malware in a voter's PC. Then the PC owner can be notified, and can debug the machine. Hurray!
William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
WJKPhD 1 year ago