From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Dean McEwan <dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HAR*D*WARE BASED.
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:13:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030514161308.GA10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030514152247.4146.qmail@linuxmail.org>
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:22:46PM +0000, Dean McEwan wrote:
> > That way around doesnt actually work because I'll simply lie, fake the server or firewall you
>
> Encrypted binary, in a XML wrapper that needs decryption key from owners site.
> Uses port 80...
... and is declared a firing offense. BTW, the privacy issues (and related
information leak/blackmail potential) are mind-boggling - it's not just
"some guy bought $material", it's "this guy had accessed $material at
$list_of_times".
And that's besides being unable to use the FPOS in question on a laptop,
going tits-up whenever a backhoe finds your cable, doing the same when
vendor's boxen get screwed, yadda, yadda.
Crap idea.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-14 15:22 Dean McEwan
2003-05-14 16:13 ` viro [this message]
2003-05-14 19:07 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-05-15 6:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-15 10:44 Dean McEwan
2003-05-15 11:17 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-19 11:01 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-05-15 14:19 Dean McEwan
2003-05-15 14:37 Dean McEwan
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