Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition(techcrunch.com)
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Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/28/intel-closes-7-68-billion-mcafee-acquisition/
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Perhaps Intel plans on giving the Mcafee virus scanner away for free. The resulting bogged down and slow computers would lead to increased demand for more powerful Intel CPUs.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
Intel CEO: I need some anti-virus. Can someone buy me McAfee?
Minion [2 hours later]: OK, Done.
Minion [2 hours later]: OK, Done.
It's a long term investment to bring security down to the hardware level.
Bringing security down to the hardware level only means you'll be enabling virus-access to the hardware level because hardware will never keep up with software.
"Bringing security down to the hardware level only means you'll be enabling virus-access to the hardware level"
How does that follow? We've had "security" at the hardware level for years. The hardware is as accessible as it'll ever be -- it's only going to get more locked down from here.
How does that follow? We've had "security" at the hardware level for years. The hardware is as accessible as it'll ever be -- it's only going to get more locked down from here.
A better investment would be to fix the holes in the first place.
Or, better yet, spend that money to educate users and administrators alike on how to protect themselves.
Or, better yet, spend that money to educate users and administrators alike on how to protect themselves.
Fixing security vulnerabilities in every piece of software ever written (or to be written) seems like a hell of a lot more work than hardening the processor. Non-executable memory, for example, eliminates a whole class of vulnerabilities in which illicitly added code is run from the stack or heap.
To suggest that further work on the processor security model is a waste because people ought to have done it right the first time is blind to the fact that people will screw up no matter what.
To suggest that further work on the processor security model is a waste because people ought to have done it right the first time is blind to the fact that people will screw up no matter what.
1) How are they responsible for the holes? 2) How would this make them money?
I could easily see it becoming BigCo policy to only use hardware with Enterprise Security Robustness(tm), if only as an ass-covering move.
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Long shot, but has it got anything to do with real estate? Intel and McAfee HQs are located within a mile of each other...
again, its a crazy angle, just putting it out there.
This was discussed on HN a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617186
This seems like a huge waste of money to me.
Hm. I see this as a play for DRM locking things across the stack. Deep scan and data analysis software would be ripe for implementing this. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
Can someone explain any drop of rationale Intel might have for doing this? I am coming up empty.