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Intel Developing A Secure Data Sharing Solution

posted by girlwhowaspluggedout on Monday March 03 2014, @10:30AM   
from the god-himself-could-not-sink-this-ship dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"Intel's Reliance Point is a research project with a daunting task - a leak-proof Big Data sharing solution for business collaboration.

The chipmaker, says The MIT Technology Review, 'thinks it has a way to let valuable data be combined and analyzed without endangering anyone's privacy. Its researchers are testing a super-secure data locker where a company could combine its sensitive data with that from another party without either side risking that raw information being seen or stolen.' The system's inner workings are based on a series of security checks, from the BIOS on up:

When the Reliance Point system boots up, a security chip is used to check that the BIOS, the lowest-level software on a computer that starts it up, hasn't been tampered with. The BIOS then makes its own checks before activating the next level of software, which in turn makes its own checks, a chain-like process that continues until the system is fully operational.

• The problem is not with the data locker The problem is not with the data locker (Score: 5, Insightful) by Dunbal on Monday March 03 2014, @10:47AM

  by Dunbal (3515) on Monday March 03 2014, @10:47AM (#10053)

  The problem is the system whereby government (any government) will just ask for the keys to the "locker" and get them. If you have a nice, centralized repository of information, then the government(s) know exactly where to look, exactly who to talk to, and exactly who to threaten. The only possible solution is a decentralized one but even then, we're back to the fundamental flaw in computer security - if your computer can read it then so can mine.

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• Re:The problem is not with the data locker (Score: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Monday March 03 2014, @11:26AM

  by Sir Garlon (1264) on Monday March 03 2014, @11:26AM (#10071)

  Not just the government -- any attacker. If you think about it, a government subpoena is just a (legalized) insider attack. If a sys admin can hand your data over to the Feds, he can hand it to anyone else, too.

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