__/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Monday 24 July 2006 17:52 \__
> "Mark Kent" <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7qeep3-h9o.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> It goes on to describe [...] superior methods for taking linux
>> forward to make it much more immune to such difficulties. Techniques
>> which have been successfully used are described, including encrypting
>> the running code in memory to make it much more difficult to exploit a
>> buffer overflow (the virus wouldn't be able to encrypt itself the right
>> way).
>
> Interestingly enough, this sounds a lot like a "whitehat" application
> of DRM and/or Trusted Computing.
>
> - Oliver
I'm aware that you are on the verge of sarcasm there, but
FWIW encryption is used very widely in computing, especially
for inter-host/client/peer communication. Think, for
example, about Internet banking (HTTS, SSL) or PGP/GPG. The
computer also needs to be secure therein if multiple users
are involved and each possesses different privileges and
must prevent intrusion (shared memory, disks, maybe even
physical access which requires filespace encryption). There
were serious incidents of user role escalation within the
Debian servers recently. This has been resolved. Piracy and
privacy may sound similar, but there are separate
altogether. DRM/encryption has no place in combatting piracy
because it entails a high cost and it offers merely nothing.
Best wishes,
Roy
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