The MS DRM Patent and Freedom to Speak and Think

[Peter Gutmann]

>Microsoft's patent for a Digital Rights Management
>Operating System was awarded yesterday:
>
>   http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm
>
>A digital rights management operating system protects
>rights-managed data, such as downloaded content, from
>access by untrusted programs while the data is loaded
>into memory or on a page file as a result of the
>execution of a trusted application that accesses the
>memory. To protect the rights-managed data resident in
>memory, the digital rights management operating system
>refuses to load an untrusted program into memory while
>the trusted application is executing or removes the
>data from memory before loading the untrusted program.
>[...]

I wonder how long it'll take for someone to locate the undocumented _MPAAKEY
which exists alongside MS's documented one?

Peter.



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