Re: It's interesting...
@Warm Braw,
We now run our own code on other people's computers, and other people run their code on our computers - with or without our permission.
Yep, that is the real core of the problem. Assuming other people's code is fundamentally trustworthy without knowing who they are or where code comes from is a mistake. Assuming that one's hardware really does implement a specific machine architecture is a mistake. Couple both of those together in one PC, and one may as well not bother with passwords, etc, because there's no way of ensuring one has full control of that computer.
I feel (only a little bit) for Intel, a seemingly existential threat to their business has lurched out of the vulture's lair, mostly because the world of the Internet has moved dramatically towards a use case that didn't really exist, what, 10 years ago?
Arguably this is an existential threat to the likes of Google too; we might all be forced into using NoScript type plugins to remain safe, and where then is Google's services delivery platform? Coz it wouldn't be Javascript... There's not a lot they can do. If they changed Chrome so that only scripts from Google ran (which is a way of ensuring Javascript so far as Google care about it is demonstrably safe) there'd be the biggest antitrust case ever launched within minutes. They can't vet the world's Javascript code base. They could just abandon desktop Web browsers altogether, stick to native Android apps, but that'd cause a big loss of revenue.
Well it's only going to get more interesting...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
