NGSCB bites the dust
p2pnet.net News:- Bill Gate’s vaunted Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) – Palladium that was – has been killed.
Computer users feared that with it (or, rather, under it) they’d be giving Microsoft carte blanche back-door access to their computers, with all that implies.
However, "Microsoft executives confirmed that NGSCB will be canned," says CRN’s Paula Rooney here.
"We’re evaluating how these NGSCB capabilities should be integrated into Longhorn, but we don’t know exactly how it’ll be manifested," Mario Juarez, product manager in Microsoft’s Security and Technology Business Unit, is quoted as saying.
"A lot of decisions have yet to be made. We’re going to come out later this year with a complete story."
Juarez said customers and ISV partners didn’t want to rewrite applications using the NGSCB API set, states Rooney, going on:
"Though Microsoft plans to use the NGSCB ‘compartmentalizing’ technology in future versions of Windows, the company is moving swiftly to support No Execute (NX) security technology in newer AMD and Intel processors. NX reduces memory buffer overruns that many hackers exploit to insert malicious code into Windows and allows developers to mark pages as nonexecutable."
May 5th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
If this means that TCPA (one of the original incanations) is gone then WOOHOO…there is not as much Big Brother on the horizon as we thought…maybe.
May 5th, 2004 at 8:39 pm
They’re just plotting and trying to figure out a way to reintroduce it quietly.