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Re: What, me worry?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wagner)
Thu Jan 16 09:25:28 2003
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From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
Date: 16 Jan 2003 01:33:33 GMT
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Jon Simon wrote:
>I seriously doubt any new DRM system will be totally secure in hardware
>or software at v5.0, let alone v1.0. So why worry?
Because those attacks will be illegal. No, wait -- they already are
illegal. This means that the good guys will be reluctant to break the
DRM for legitimate purposes, while the bad guys will continue to break
the DRM for illegitimate purposes. Not exactly an ideal situation.
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