Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 19:07 -0800, James A. Donald wrote: The ability to convincingly tell the truth is a very handy one between people who are roughly equal. It is a potentially disastrous one if one party can do violence with impunity to the one with the ability to convincingly tell the truth. In other words, NGSCB/Palladium/etc doesn't give you an advantage in the least when you step onto a playing field tilting heavily in Microsoft's direction. -- Shawn K. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:19:46AM +, Justin wrote: If I film off a HDTV screen with a HDTV camera (or just do single-frame with a good professional camera) will the flag be preserved? I don't think so, I think the flag is in the bitstream and doesn't affect visual output at all. You still run into significant quality I know; that was a rhetorical question. loss trying to get around it that way. I doubt the quality loss would be perceivable. What you'll get will be persistent artifacts which would allow source fingerprinting via digital forensics. The point is that HDTV is a popular consumer technology, and the MPAA and TV networks alone managed to hijack it. I have yet to see a single HDTV movie/broadcast, and I understand most TV sets can't display anything beyond 800x600. DVD started with a copy protection, too. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net pgpdFAC7QNbx4.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
On 2005-02-03T22:25:28+0100, Anonymous wrote: The only people endangered by this capability are those who want to be able to lie. They want to agree to contracts and user agreements that, for example, require them to observe DRM restrictions and copyright laws, but then they want the power to go back on their word, to dishonor their commitment, and to lie about their promises. An honest man is No, I want the right to fair use of material I buy. If someone sells DRM-only material, I won't buy it at anything approaching non-DRM prices. In some cases, I won't buy it at all. My fair use rights should not be held hostage by a stupid majority who support a DRM-only market. Maybe the market for music won't support DRM-only products, but I suspect the market for DVDs and low-sales books will. The result is that I won't be able to rip a season's worth of DVDs so I can watch them all without playing hot potato with the physical DVDs. I won't be able to avoid the 15-second copyright warnings, or the useless menu animations. Low-sales books may end up being DRM-only, and I _hate_ reading books on a screen. Since DRM-only rare books will satisfy some of the market, there will be even less pressure on physical book publishers to occasionally reprint them, thus forcing even more people to buy the DRM'd ebooks. I bought an ebook on amazon for $1.99 a couple months ago. The printed book was $20. It was very nearly the worst purchase of my life. I won't buy a similarly DRM'd ebook every again, for any amount. The hassle plus the restrictions aren't worth the $18 savings. -- War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free. --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)
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Justin writes: No, I want the right to fair use of material I buy. If someone sells DRM-only material, I won't buy it at anything approaching non-DRM prices. In some cases, I won't buy it at all. Well, that's fine, nobody's forcing you to buy anything. But try to think about this from a cypherpunk perspective. Fair use is a government oriented concept. Cypherpunks generally distrust the collectivist wisdom of Big Brother governments. What fair use amounts to is an intrustion of government regulation into a private contractual arrangement. It is saying that two people cannot contract away the right to excerpt a work for purposes of commentary or criticism. It says that such contracts are invalid and unenforceable. Now, maybe you think that is good. Maybe you think minimum wage is good, a similar imposition of government regulation to prevent certain forms of contracts. Maybe you think that free speech codes are good. Maybe you support all kinds of government regulations that happen to agree with your ideological preferences. If so, you are not a cypherpunk. May I ask, what the hell are you doing here? Cypherpunks support the right and ability of people to live their own lives independent of government control. This is the concept of crypto anarchy. See that word? Anarchy - it means absence of government. It means freedom to make your own rules. But part of the modern concept of anarchy is that ownership of the self implies the ability to make contracts and agreements to limit your own actions. A true anarchic condition is one in which people are absolutely free to make whatever contracts they choose. They can even make evil, immoral, wicked contracts that people like you do not approve of. They can be racists, like Tim May. They can avoid paying their taxes. They can take less money than minimum wage for their work. They can practice law or medicine without a license. And yes, they can agree to DRM restrictions and contract away their so-called fair use rights. One of the saddest things I've seen on this list, and I've seen it many times, is when people say that the laws of their country give them the right to ignore certain contractual elements that they have agreed to. They think that it's morally right for them to ignore DRM or limitations on fair use, because their government said so. I can't describe how appalling I consider this view. That anyone, in this day and age, could consider _government_ as an arbiter of morality is so utterly bizarre as to be incredible. And yet not only is this view common, it is even expressed here on this list, among people who supposedly have a distrust and suspicion of government. I can only assume that the ideological focus of this mailing list has been lost over the years. Newcomers have no idea what it means to be a cypherpunk, no sense of the history and purpose which originally drove the movement. They blindly accept what they have been force-fed in government-run schools, that government is an agency for good. That's one interpretation. The other is worse. It's that people on this list have sold out their beliefs, their ideals, and their morality. What was the bribe offered to them to make them turn away from the moral principles which brought them to this list originally? What was so valuable that they would discard their belief in self ownership in favor of a collectivist worship of government morality? Simply this: free music and movies. The lure of being able to download first MP3s and now video files has been so great that even cypherpunks, the supposed defenders of individual rights and crypto anarchy, are willing to break their word, violate their contracts, lie and cheat and steal in order to feed their addictive habit. They are willing to do and say anything they have to in order to get access to those files. They don't feel the slightest bit of guilt when they download music and movies in direct contradiction to the expressed desire of the people who put their heart and soul into creating those works. They willingly take part in a vast criminal enterprise, an enormous machine which takes from the most creative members of our society without offering anything in return. And this enterprise is criminal not by the standards of any government or legal code, but by the standards of the morality which is the essence of the cypherpunk worldview: the standard of self ownership, of abiding by one's word, of honoring one's agreements. This poisonous activity has penetrated to all parts of internet based society, and its influence has stolen away what honor the cypherpunks once possessed. Its toxic morality ensures that cypherpunks can no longer present a consistent philosophy, that there is nothing left but meaningless paranoid rantings. I challenge anyone here to answer the question of what it means to be a cypherpunk. What are your goals? What is your philosophy? Do you even recognize the notion of right and
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Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:23:14AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: The point is that HDTV is a popular consumer technology, and the MPAA and TV networks alone managed to hijack it. I have yet to see a single HDTV movie/broadcast, and I understand most TV sets can't display anything beyond 800x600. Not widespread in Europe yet, but all the big networks in the US now support it for most or nearly all their prime time schedule and most big events (sports and otherwise) are now in HDTV in the USA. Also more and more cable networks in HDTV and some movie channels. Bandwidth is the big limitation on satellite and cable, otherwise there would be even more. And HDTV sets are selling well now in the USA. Most do not yet have the full 1920 by 1080 resolution, but many are around 1280 by 720 native resolution which works well with the 720p progressive version used primarily for sports (looks better with fast motion). DVD started with a copy protection, too. However the really strange thing about the FCC broadcast flag is that the actual over the air ATSC transport stream on broadcast channels is mandated by law to be sent *IN THE CLEAR*, no encryption allowed - so the FCC decision basicly requires any receiver sold to the public *ENCRYPT* an ITC signal before providing it to the user.Naturally this bit of nonsense will go far to make the broadcast flag very effective indeed at preventing anyone with very modest sophistication from capturing the over the air in the clear transport stream and passing it around on P2P networks or whatever - there is already plenty of PCI hardware out there to receive ATSC transmissions (MyHD and many others) and supply the transport stream to software running on the PC. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493
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Re: Auto-HERF: Car Chase Tech That's Really Hot
At 06:41 PM 2/4/05 -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 10:15 AM 2/4/2005, R.A. Hettinga wrote: The beautiful part of using the (microwave) energy is that it leaves the suspect in control of the car, he said. He can steer, he can brake, he just can't accelerate. Sorry Charlie, but I think newer vehicles are moving to fly-by-wire steering, especially hybrids that don't have an internal combustion engine running all the time so they can't easily use traditional hydraulic servo steering. Also amusing will be the congealed lenses of bystanders, dead pacemaker wearers, fried business computers, in addition to the accidents caused by other disabled cars. But the cops will get their man, and the rest is collateral damage, put it on the perp's ticket. Besides, the ECU is shielded pretty well by the car metal and the unit itself is shielded from the electrical ignition noise. But someone needs to explain that to this executive who fancies himself an inventor and can't wait to suckle Caesar's teat, selling cyber terrorist gizmos to the man. Personally I only use the magnetron horn (concealed in my rooftop fiberglass luggage holder) on inconsiderate cell-phone-using drivers. Better than jamming, because they get to kiss their RF front end goodbye, permenantly. So it helps everyone for several days, *and* sells new handsets, helping the economy. Works on pig radios too. Also works on the thumpa-thumpa drivers, and when I turn the power up I find that Chihauha's skulls are not meant to take internal pressure; a steam explosion is pretty messy, and fuzzy dice don't really clean the insides of windshields terribly well.
