What, me worry?

David Wagner daw at mozart.cs.berkeley.edu
Wed Jan 15 20:33:33 EST 2003


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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