Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is some follow-up to the Android Trusted Execution Environment security issue with Samsung smartphones. 100 million Samsung phones affected by encryption weakness | TechRepublic The advice here is whatever device you have, keep those patches and updates up-to-date. Samsung smartphones with leaky security – Smart Thinking Solutions Samsung Encryption …
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There is an academic paper from Tel Aviv University examining Samsung smartphones and how they implement the cryptographic security. They found that some models had a design flaw that allowed for the extraction of the secret keys. Trust Dies in Darkness: Shedding Light on Samsung’s TrustZone Keymaster Design (iacr.org) Here …
Trust is relative, ranging from not trusting at all, to the complete trust that arises based on commonly shared expectations of honest cooperative behaviour. Francis Fukuyama, a political scientist, first defined trust in this way in his book Trust, 1995. The very fact that he could write a whole book …
