Big 3 Roll Out 'Trusted Mobile Platform'

An anonymous reader writes "In an effort to enhance the security of 'advanced' e-commerce services in mobile devices and guard against viruses and other software attacks, NTT DoCoMo, Intel, and IBM have jointly released a security specification known as the 'Trusted Mobile Platform.' The spec is said to define a set of hardware and software components that can be built into devices to provide varying degrees of security. Implementation of the platform is said to consist of applying well-established, strong security techniques to hardware and software architectures, resulting in a trusted execution environment that protects the device at boot time and during device operation. The hspec is available ere."

This isn't good for business

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

This isn't good for anybody

Old Seinfeld line..

The next 2 years

[Anonymous Coward]

13.9 months: Someone releases a trivial universal patch to bypass execution checks.
14 months: Big 3 release compatible S/W and H/W
14.01 months: Slashdot breaks news of patch which renders it useless.
14.1 months: CNN breaks the news.
14.2 months: Whoever releases the patch goes to jail for a long time while anyone who wants to do damage to your hardware anyway just patches their executable and releases.
24 months: Big companies announce another form of bulletproof security.

Re:False argument

[Anonymous Coward]

I partially agree with you but I think that if "good-enough" security was a good enough mainstream deterrent then such a large satellite TV grey/black market wouldn't exist. Initially figuring out how to hack a card, from what I understand, required equipment worth millions to do and yet despite the difficulty of it there are a lot of suppliers out there.

Mind you, not every Tom, Dick, and Harry is doing it and while it certainly isn't as common as something like sharing an mp3 via peer-to-peer software, it

Re:The next 2 years

[cakefool]

14.01 months: Slashdot breaks news of patch which renders it useless.

14.12 months: Slashdot breaks news of patch which renders it useless.

14.18 months: Slashdot breaks news of patch which renders it useless.

14.19 months: Slashdot editors strung up by angry mob of antidupe fundamentalists

Discombobulation

[mintrepublic]

This is how you know someone is from Detroit: Ask them who the Big Three are and see if they say Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Honestly, I was very confused when I saw the headline. /Michigander

One Word:

[Anonymous Coward]

Bad Idea [cam.ac.uk](TM)

Here's why:

"Trusted Computing" provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the application software, and where these applications can communicate securely with their authors and with each other. The original motivation was digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a TC platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be ab

Re:One Word:

[Stevyn]

This has nothing to do with Microsoft's "Trusted Computing"! This was made by Intel, IBM, and NTT DoCoMo.

"How many times do we have to repeat it until people finally get it?"

How many times do people have to repeat RTFA until you get it.