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attila77	2010-05-10 , 21:11
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Originally Posted by ndi

b) None of those are X86. It's easy to lock down a proprietary hardware with a proprietary OS. It's virtually impossible to do so with X86 lest you risk platform incompatibility.

This is completely bogus. Intel (like all major chipmakers) has a very serious investment in 'trusted/secure computing', has even worked with ARM on TrustZone in the XScale days, and is shipping with a lot of security enabled chipsets for years. The fact that this tech has not yet been widely used for lockdown is most certainly not the result of Intel fighting tooth and nail for your hack-rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted...ion_Technology

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