RSSGates Issues Call to Action for Security
By Nate Mook | Published February 14, 2006, 3:11 PM
In his keynote address at the RSA Conference in San Jose Tuesday, Bill Gates outlined his vision for ensuring security on PCs and the growing number of connected devices. The Microsoft chairman also issued a call to action, saying the industry needs to support a "trust ecosystem."
Trust, said Gates, will be the foundation on which future security infrastructure is built. The idea is to establish relationships between people and businesses when it comes to PCs, similar to those that exist in the physical world. For example, Windows Vista will require low-level code to be signed and comply with strict policies.
Another effort being undertaken by Microsoft is a new technology called "InfoCard" for managing identities and sharing personal information. InfoCard will largely replace Passport in the future and do away with password-based security authentication systems.
Gates said that the InfoCard technology will provide a unified place for personal data and payment information, much like a digital wallet. Web sites can create and request separate InfoCards, each containing different sets of data that remain individually secure.
InfoCard fits into what Gates called the new "Identity Metasystem," in which disparate authentication methods will work together under unified framework. The concept is much like those being pushed by the Liberty Alliance, OASIS, and now VeriSign and OATH.
"Our vision for security is to create a world where there is greater trust — where people and organizations can use a range of devices to be more reliably and securely connected to the information, services and people that matter most to them," Gates said.
To this end, Microsoft is pushing companies in the industry to work together in establishing best practices for developing more-secure code. The company recently created its own such protocol called the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) and has created the Secure IT Alliance.
Gates added that businesses need to adopt this trust ecosystem in order to ensure end-users remain safe. "It is our responsibility as industry leaders to provide customers with the information and tools they need to live their personal and professional lives without fear of security or privacy breaches," he said.
"Every computer user should have the right to go online securely, and we are committed to turning this vision into reality."
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"Gates said that the InfoCard technology will provide a unified place for personal data and payment information, much like a digital wallet"
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~Exactly~ the same thing he said about Passport !
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The Computer Rodent
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"Our vision for security is to create a world where there is greater trust..."
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TRUST - !
Get used to this word. Total tyranny is building up behind this cloak.
Specially in this war and crime tumbling world - who is not yearning for TRUST . . .
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Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose trust the LORD is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.Jer17:5-10
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He means trust the big corporations with lots of money and high prices. Not the greedy little bas****s stealing all that damned music! They need some heavy DRM shoved up their ass!
Ehh...? You got it all wrong talking about people; they're not important.
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http://www.libsdl.org/index.php
It's getting harder and harder to not tread on another person or company's name or abbreviation.
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Noting that most of the SPAM and etc actually is based here in the US, maybe MS could donate some money to lobby for tough laws against the SPAM that is taking up so much bandwidth and spreading so much malware. That is far more important to me than if some one downloads a song. I mean really, you can record music off cable without ever paying for it or even borrow a CD and copy it leaving no trace. The spammers and etc are a far more serious problem.
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