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"In the US Department of Defense, a `trusted system or component' is defined as `one which can break the security policy'." [1] This really gets to the crux of
by josephlord 13y ago
"In the US Department of Defense, a `trusted system or component' is defined as `one which can break the security policy'." [1]
This really gets to the crux of it. We might deem the CA's untrustworthy but we currently trust them anyway because there isn't really that much choice.
[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html - Ross Anderson (Trusted Computing FAQ - Q24)