Can We Trust the Future? Part Two, by Eric Sivertson, QuantumTrace LLC
April 29, 2013
“So your smartphone, tablet, and many other devices are considered by most organizations as “untrusted devices” unless, of course, they have “authenticated” them. But really, what does that mean? In light of a foundational mechanism to unquestionably identify the device, how can you find out that the applicant was one of, say, 10 million cloned humans who were identical in every way (including DNA and fingerprints). Now, which one of those 10 million clones was the applicant that you authenticated? Makes for a tough authentication problem now, doesn’t it? Well, that’s the world we live in today. I will go so far as to say that all devices, unless under 24/7 surveillance, have the potential to violate their authentication and are, hence, all untrusted.”
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