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Re:Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and ... by woah on Friday June 09, 2017 @11:15AM (#14521971)
If Intel is the one source of ultimate trust, why not just run your secure whatever on Intel's servers? Seems a lot less complex than jumping through all these SGX hoops.
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Re:Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and ... by 801699 on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:14PM (#14522764)
companies that make the bios were* the other sources of "ultimate trust". why not let them...

*then came uefi.

hoop-jumping never a problem with the i.t. market. more complexity is fine so long as managed by someone else. only the sales pitch needs to be simple.

why is it unfathomable that users could only trust themselves and other users? continual push toward more complexity helps keep users from ever believing this is achievable.

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