Posted by nospam on 02/10/07 03:04

Matthew T. Russotto wrote:

> IIRC "Trusted computing" isn't exactly private sector, nor was it intended
> to be "big brother". I think it came out of the DOD "compartmented
> workstation" project; the idea was to allow one machine to process
> data at different levels of classification without allowing leakage
> between levels. Which doesn't change the fact that it's certainly
> being used for evil now.

I thought it was a sort of in joke, a 'trusted' computer being one that
you knew you could compromise.

Andy

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