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Re: example: secure computing kernel needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sun Dec 14 18:10:13 2003
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:21:45 -0800
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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At 02:41 PM 12/14/2003 +0000, Dave Howe wrote:
>Paul A.S. Ward wrote:
> > I'm not sure why no one has considered the PC banking problem to be a
> > justification for secure computing. Specifically, how does a user
> > know their computer has not been tampered with when they wish to use
> > it for banking access.
>I think PC banking is an argument *against* Secure Computing as currently
>proposed - there is no way to discover if there is a nasty "running" in
>protected memory or removing it if there is.
Agreed. It's a better argument for booting from a known CDROM distribution.
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