Re: Comodo Personal Firewall

Volker Birk wrote:
> melih@comodogroup.com wrote:
> > I don't think you could have created a secure PC as the main problem
> > would still have been the "secret key" distribution as RSA was not
> > invented until 1970s.
>
> The main problem is, that processes can communicate without a security
> system in between, and that this is a documented behaviour of Microsoft
> Windows. The two technologies I mentioned in my last posting are the
> common technologies to prevent that. This has nothing to do with RSA.

As i said in my previous posting, we are talking cross purposes. The
definition of "Secure" very much depends on the Threat Model. What you
are suggesting is a threat model of another software attacking another
software, not necessarily a hacker sitting in front of your computer.

>
> > No I did not mean TCPA. TCPA was the previous name for TCG. I do mean
> > TPM (Trusted Platform Module) which is the chip that implements the
> > standards set by TCG.
>
> Standards, which are designed to be abused by huge media companies
> to enforce "security" for constrolling the PC a customer has bought.
> Not the customer can control her/his PC, but the media company. A
> think which implements in hardware, with what Sony shipwrecked lately.

So I take it you like TCG :-)
Just like any new tool it could be used both for good and bad. Time
will tell.

>
> Yours,
> VB.
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Received on Mon May 1 01:04:53 2006