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WTF Intel Buys McAfee for $7,680,000,000

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WNxEuphonic:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20014175-245.html?tag=TOCmoreStories.0

There's an interesting article from CNET about the possibility of built-in security in the future.

Mangley:
At least it wasn't Norton.

killermonkey:

--- Quote ---"Today if a hacker wants to come into a system it almost always is done through software. But Intel and McAfee are capable of adding even another level of security, which would make a hacker have to break the hardware code as well as the software code."

--- End quote ---

This reminds me of that thing.... oh yah thats right.... the United States Government trying to solve beurocracy problems with yet more beurocracy. In the end it is a big waste of money, bloats your end product, and is easily defeated the first time someone finds the weak spot (in the case of government, their wallets).

Why in gods name would anyone think that implementing STATIC ON-CHIP security would be a good idea at all? Once the weakness is found it is exploited, and unless this is a programmable chip (read SOFTWARE again) the hackers will have free reign over your system again anyway. Useless.

VC:
It doesn't matter if it doesn't work, it can be a bullet point on a slideshow, and that's enough to sell units.

jjmusicnotes:

--- Quote from: mbsurfer on August 20, 2010, 04:06:57 am ---It's all about the name. People would buy shoes made out of newspaper as long as there was a Nike swoop on it.

--- End quote ---

Wait, you mean they're not made out of newspaper?

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