Taxi Vader's find is HUGE!!!!!
See message #20300.....here's an excerpt:
"There is a way to detect devices that are lying about their capabilities. Google is using it in the forthcoming Chrome OS laptops: an encrypted hardware module that can't be hacked. The technology, called Trusted Platform Module (TPM), has been around for years and is used in some laptops -- particularly those in the defense industry. In order to work, device management software needs to have access to the device's read-only status through the operating system, to compare the safeguarded actual state against the device's software-reported state."
"Conceivably, all the mobile device makers could agree to implement TPM in some common way, providing an API-level tool that could not be hacked to lie. That's unlikely -- and it hasn't happened in the world of laptops, which are much more widely deployed and tend to hold gobs of potentially sensitive information."
This author is essentially calling for TPMs to be inside all cell phones!
