Foam... I'd say that's very interesting...
... Given Lockheed Martin's participation in HAP and the upcoming NSA Trusted Computing Conference & Exposition.
Less interesting, but helpful is the fact that NIST's William Burr has joined the roster of speakers. NIST is, as you know, hugely influential within .gov and .mil circles.
I'm going to use an inelegant(but, I feel, accurate) analogy. Wave investors and various assorted others who believe in the critical value of Trusted Computing to our nation's cyber defense initiative(s) have been waiting for its natural birth. At various points in this 10+ year journey (gestation?), we were just certain that the bouncing baby was about to be born. I have been guilty of this. For example, I thought the VA laptop theft was going to mark a tipping point. Events pointed to it. The signs were there. Wrong... again.
Now, I would suggest (based on ample evidence) that we are witnessing a Caesarean birth... and, just to muddle the analogies further... in classic Caesarean manner, the Rubicon has been (at long, long, long last) crossed.
The surgeon is (let me put this... delicately) .gov/.mil-related. This comes as no surprise for certain folks in the Wave investor camp. It kinda had to be that way... Inertia within the private sector was not going to naturally resolve. Too much investment in the status quo has been keeping things from progressing. The private sector is NOT good at addressing pervasive threats... especially when, in part, the threats are traceable to technology innovations that have YET to factor in their corrosive, dangerous effects upon the whole cyber-ecosystem. There had to be a kind of intervention.
I've put this up before... But if you have pretty good idea of how to answer the following question, you know who the surgeon is: How is it possible that a PC industry that is so cost-conscious and that operates on thin margins has been able to support the introduction of over 300 million PCs with TPMs... given that less than 1% of those TPMs have been turned on to date?
There has been ZERO market demand for TPMs. Zero. So... this large-scale introduction of a low-cost (but, important to note, not free) item... is something that's beyond the marketplace.
Best Regards,
c m
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