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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, David Kramer wrote: > 1) Does anyone but me think this will be used for digital media copy > protection more than anything else? I could be off with this one, but it > sure smells like it to me. > Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I've started working on a program to play .wav files in a way that will be useful to me if I do any more transcribing, and I can use vsound to convert Real Audio streams into .wav files. But I strongly suspect that RealNetworks would prefer that I not be able to do this, that I have no choice but to use their player to play RealAudio content. > 2) It humors me to see them take such esoteric measures when the design of > almost every piece of software they've written to date has thown security out > the door in the name of ease of use, and thorough software infrastructure in > the name of virtual paper clips. > My boss has joked that, once Longhorn gets released, probably no one will be able to use Windows computers except the hackers. And I really have to wonder if it will be as secure as Microsoft says it will be. Protecting software against software strikes me as theoretically difficult, but then I can't understand how most of the security they describe will be implemented. I might go to the presentation and take some notes, in any case.
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