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Re: Cryptogram: Palladium Only for DRM

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Simpson)
Mon Sep 16 18:22:44 2002

Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sam Simpson <simpson@samsimpson.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: <niels@ferguson.net>, <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>,
	<DMCA-Activists@gnu.org>, <DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org>,
	<fairuse-discuss@mrbrklyn.com>
In-Reply-To: <87elbtoeuz.fsf@snark.piermont.com>



On 16 Sep 2002, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> AARG!Anonymous <remailer@aarg.net> writes:

<SNIP>

> > And if the virus infected the banking client software
> > itself, that would change its hash which would keep it from being able
> > to access the data.
>
> There are patches to NetBSD that happily prevent a program that does
> not have a particular hash from executing, and similar code for
> several other OSes I've seen.

Even Windows (NT/2k/XP) can implement this functionality using AppSense
Application Manager (see e.g.
http://www.appsense.com/content/software_solutions/application_manager/application_manager.asp
).

<SNIP>


Rgds,

Sam


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