All your base are belong to Intel

Read...

http://arstechnica.com/business/new...en-plan-to-put-av-vendors-out-of-business.ars


Then discuss...

I dont see this ever being a forced option(like iPhone), but rather, something businesses would use, or the average joe who will want the added "security". Even so, I see this being WAY to easy to crack, if it ever goes into place.

 

Next CPU I will buy will be an AMD, as long they do not get a crappy anti virus protection, like McAfee is. Hell I would rather choose Eset or Avira and Kasperskys as my anti virus, than the crappy piece of shit McAfee. I know for a fact that McAfee is a crappy piece of software, I had a friend who got infected by some nasty W32 shit, and lo and behold McAfee could not do shit. In comparison to any of those tree other programs I have mentioned.

 

I don't think you understood the article, WDK. This has fuck all to do with McAfee. It's about locking down the PC as a platform to only run code that Intel or an Intel vendor/subsidiary ok's. They've been moving this way for years with the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips and the Trusted Computing movement in general.

I think it's utter bullshit. Why the fuck should some company be able to tell me what software I run on my PC?

 

I think this is a plan that'll fall straight on it's arse when the dev's get wind of it.

 

Computing should be free.

 

Alchy: sorry that was my fault. But what a fucking monopoly bummer.

 

Paranoid people are paranoid

Did AMD buying ATI run the graphics Card business into the ground?

No it simplified it.

 

Agreed. A few decades ago operating systems were created through the hackability of terminals. Imagine if they had been locked down like Intel are attempting.

 

Sounds like you didn't read the article either.

"What Intel is proposing is that the entire x86 ecosystem move to the opposite approach, and run only the code that has been blessed as safe by some trusted authority."

This has nothing to do with the AMD/ATI merger, not even vaguely.

I'd agree, but that doesn't make it any less odious. Hopefully the EFF or someone will get on the case.

 

It would be a sad day when you couldn't even code something on your own pc :/

+1 don't think this will ever happen

 

Microsoft tried the same thing with TPM. In the end, it meant nothing and it barely supported. The same will happen here, as in the end, you can't force software to be certified because you won't be able to run any legacy stuff and only major software developers will support it. So it will be optional, and therefore totally redundant for security.

 

You can bet it won't. It's a bad idea for users and software developers and Intel knows it.

However, I can imagine this idea being used for security purposes, for example to block external software in servers, ATMs, etc.

 

XY=X meme?

 

Am I the only one here that runs no A/V at all? I don't really use a PC anymore, but even when I did I didn't have shit.

 

No antivirus here, vanilla lame Windows firewall.

Not a single problem in 3 years since I quit avast.

 

Seriously? You should both know better.

 

That you know of....

I've seen PCs that don't have malicious stuff running in the background, but if you run combofix or the like, it finds and deletes rootkits and trojans and even keyloggers.

You'd be surprised.

On topic:
I doubt this will really take off because what will you do with the old programs that people use that are not 'signed' and validated?

The same with @home programmers.

 

Anti Trust laws

that is all

 

Dream on.