Content in lockdown
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| There is a short list of parties who will be unauthorized to access
| your frame buffer: You.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/03/28/14OPcurve_1.html
RIAA slams Steve Jobs
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| David hughes, senior vice president of technology for the RIAA, dubbed
| the spiritual leader of Apple Steve Jobs as a "hypocrite" over his
| attitude to DRM on iTunes.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38874
Just use Linux and escape all that nasty stuff, which /ruins/ security and
destroys your data in the long term.
Related:
DRM in Windows Vista
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| Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want.
| These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.
| They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will
| cause technical support problems. They may even require you to
| upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software.
| And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're
| working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM)
| features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment
| industry.
|
| And you don't get to refuse them.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| Gutmann: The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
Sun Blogs: Comments on Peter Gutmann's Vista paper
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| Overall, I agree with Gutmann that what is being attempted is
| fundamentally impossible - although I don't agree with all the
| consequences he draws. Further, I believe that software vendors
| have no right to dictate what hardware vendors produce. I also
| must say that Note C made me grin, being Gutmann's view on DRM.
|
| Finally, I can't see any Sun hardware ever being certified to
| run Vista, since the apparent need (as described in the article)
| to keep hardware details secret goes against our philosophy
| (even SPARC is famously open-source, see VHDL for a SPARC v8
| implementation and our own Verilog of the T1 SPARC v9).
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http://blogs.sun.com/davew/entry/comments_on_peter_gutmann_s
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