[ltp] TCPA on Thinkpads

[iriXx]

> It's more to make things like online banking more secure, by generating
> good private keys and storing them where malicious code can't get at them.

that much has already been disproved by MS themselves.

so called 'malicious' hackers will keep hacking anyway. i've spoken to a 
few in researching my book (i protect my journalistic sources, sorry ;) 
- they've all said that TCPA/Palladium will present a minor 
inconvenience but then business will continue as usual. it will only 
keep *us* from seeing what is happening on our own computers. it will 
also make it much easier for *staff* running a TCPA system to access 
your keys without your say-so - you wont even know its happening. Ross 
Anderson and his Ph.D student Mike Bond have already just published a 
paper on the ease with which staff at banking institutions could crack 
PIN numbers - who knows what could develop under TCPA.

m~

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