__/ [ Jim ] on Saturday 03 June 2006 01:28 \__
> Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>>__/ [ Paul Hovnanian P.E. ] on Friday 02 June 2006 03:42 \__
>>>
>>>
>>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| A woman from Greater Manchester has become a victim of an internet
>>>>>| scam in which hackers hijack computer files and blackmail owners to
>>>>>| get them back.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| The new phenomenon, known as Ransomware, means victims cannot access
>>>>>| any of the files stored in their My Documents folder.
>>>>>`----
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/5034384.stm
>>>>>
>>>>>Windows: Insecure by design.
>>>>> --Roy Culley
>>>>
>>>>Microsoft should hire these guys. They already have the digital rights
>>>>management system running that Microsoft has wanted for years.
>>>
>>>*LOL* In either case, I am sure that Jon Loch (AKA DVD Jon) will reverse
>>>engineer it all, making it publicly available. The last time I heard about
>>>him, he left Norway and went to work on some fun 'unshacking' projects
>>>with a senior guy in the States.
>>>
>>>It is amusing (in some off sense) to think that once you break the
>>>shackles, they are broken for good. Any change to the locks would break
>>>backward compatibility. I wonder how long it would take before someone
>>>breaks Apple and Microsoft DRM, providing a nice Linux GUI to decryption
>>>and, in due time, even incorporating this into mplayer (and other
>>>'forbidden' tools). A rightful owner should be permitted to migrate to
>>>Linux with the media s/he had purchased.
>>>
>>>Best wishes,
>>
>> Sorry. The DMCA prohibits reverse engineering DRM systems. Even in order
>> to access your own data. Hypothetical situation: You create a document
>> using MS Office and apply MS DRM to it. Then, you let your signing
>> certificate lapse by not keeping up the payments. Attempting to recover
>> your own document might be a violation of the DMCA.
>
> first Vista version of Office might have mandatory DRM, and mandatory
> time-limited hashes. Ever think of that? Then you're guaranteed a DMCA
> suit if you forget to pay your protection money to MS then try to open
> one of your own documents...
Does the public know this? Even _I_ was not aware of that. Better escape to
the Open/StarOffice haven sooner rather than later. We are yet to witness
some very, very big DRM controversies. Sadly, at this stage, much of the
public does not even know what DRM stands for, let alone what it *is*.
Roy
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