What, me worry?

[Jon Simon]

It's a reality check.  Despite a massive amount of work to make 
computer networks secure, remote attacks are often successful (for 
many reasons of course, including non-technical ones like poorly 
chosen passwords, but technical ones as well), and now we're talking 
about securing something the hacker has physical access to.  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?  Some companies 
are just banding together to do something they've never been able to 
do, definitely won't be able to do well on the first release, and 
likely won't be able to do successfully for a long time if ever.
-Jon

At 4:01 PM -0600 1/15/03, Alif The Terrible wrote:
>A C-Minus on the Troll-O-Meter...
>
>On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Jon Simon wrote:
>
>>  I'm not worried about DRM.  Though I do not at all like the idea of
>>  having someone else 0wn my machine, especially someone like
>>  Microsoft, I have faith that the first several versions will be
>>  relatively easily defeated by wily hacker types.  After that, armed
>>  with a machine with DRM but that I 0wn, it doesn't really matter
>>  anymore to me, right?
>>  -Jon Simon


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