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OT? New security proposed for do-it-all phones

This is from last September, sorry if already posted
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http://news.com.com/New+security+proposed+for+do-it-all+phones/2100-1037_3-5883341.html?tag=nl

Hardware-based security is not new to the mobile phone space, said Nokia's Uusilehto, but manufacturers have so far each gone their own way. The Trusted Computing Group aims to provide a standard, which should reduce costs for handset makers and let component suppliers standardize.

"Today we're wasting a lot of resources and inventing the wheel again here and there, instead of doing it together in this open approach," Uusilehto said.

Nokia, the world's biggest handset maker, plans to use the TCG's security specifications, Uusilehto said. However, he could not say which products would include the technology and when those might become available.

It took several years for PCs with TPM chips to appear. Gartner analyst John Pescatore believes it won't be until about 2008 before cell phones with the new security technology hit stores.

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"The major problem is not that the technology is so difficult, but that the market is fractured," he said. While the PC market is dominated by Intel and Microsoft, the mobile phone space has many different players who will need more time to coordinate, he said.

Though the industry sees broad use for its security technologies, Pescatore thinks large businesses will be the first to buy devices that have the added security technology. Employees are accessing corporate data on their mobile devices and there is a need for more "trustable" devices, he said.


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