[LINK] God-and/or-the-Devil Inside

[Roger Clarke]

[Remember the days of 'Intel Inside', and EPIC/PI's co-option of it to lobby against chip-identifiers, using the slogan 'Big Brother Inside'?

[Notes at http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/PrivCorp.html#BB


[Do we really want to invite complete paralysis of information infrastructure, whether caused by authoritarian government, computer suppliers upset about late payments, software providers upset about copyright breaches, organised crime, disorganised crime / script kiddies, let alone plain old blunder?

[If so, install a Titan chip.]


Google touts Titan security chip to attract cloud clients
Salvador Rodriguez
itNews
Aug 23 2017
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/google-touts-titan-security-chip-to-attract-cloud-clients-471492

>Titan scans hardware to ensure it has not been tampered with, Neal Mueller, head of infrastructure product marketing for Google Cloud Platform, said in a recent interview. If anything has been changed, Titan chip will prevent the machine from booting.


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