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Whatever happened to Microsoft's DRM plan?
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| Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a
| controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company
| envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical
| records.
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| Academics warned it could "support remote censorship" and blacklists,
| likening Palladium to the Soviet Union's efforts to register typewriters and
| fax machines. Privacy activists predicted it would hand Microsoft "an
| unprecedented level of control" over the world, and free software doyen
| Richard Stallman solemnly dubbed it "treacherous computing."
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| Asked if the world has been spared a Microsoft digital rights management
| machine, Anderson responded in an e-mail: "Wrong--WMP (Windows Media Player)
| and the surrounding stuff that MS hopes will enable it to do to the HDTV
| market what Apple did for MP3s."
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| Saffo joked: "It's like a horror movie; they'll be back."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9976658-7.html
Related:
Cisco, Microsoft, Others Get Together On Security
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| Microsoft, Cisco Systems and the open-standards Trusted Computing
| Group each developed their own NAC approaches, which use a variety
| of software and hardware to boost network security.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/070531/tech01.html?.v=1
Why the world needs openness, not interoperability.
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| This NAC/NAP lovefest would be laughable if it weren't such
| a kick-in-the-teeth to the rest of the industry, enterprise IT, and
| all Internet users. A Cisco/Microsoft oligopoly stalls implementation,
| stifles innovation, and makes the network less secure. In this way, Cisco
| and Microsoft are standing in the way of progress.
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http://news.com.com/2061-11203_3-6112960.html?part=rss&tag=6112960&subj=news
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