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Re: Digital Water Marks Thieves
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Kaminsky)
Thu Mar 3 14:30:42 2005
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:57:50 -0800
From: Dan Kaminsky <dan@doxpara.com>
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
Cc: crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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>
> My complaint is against the parroting of patently absurd claims by
> manufacturers (or governments, for that matter) under the guide of
> journalism.
>
> If you need the reason to be concrete, here's one: I might buy this
> magic water and apply it to some of my stuff, figuring I don't have to
> shell out for a second pint because Robert Andrews has assured me the
> thieves can't determine that it's on my Thing-1 but not my Thing-2.
There are tens of thousands of places inside a vehicle that a VIN# can
be stashed. Sometimes you don't always want the attacker to know where
the marks are.
The point is that the thief should think anything expensive is
protected, by which I mean it's too traceable to fence. At least right
now, this is working. Hard to argue with success.
--Dan
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