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About Gilmore's letter on IBMIntel push copyprotection into ordinary disk drives

2000-12-22 Thread Peter Wayner
I'm glad that John spent the time and energy to write a good summary of what is going on in the hard disk area. He's spot on about the dangers to our liberties. But I was quite worried until I began to see the dangers for IBM and Intel in the scheme. This is not an easy play for them because

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Tom Vogt
Brian Lane wrote: Maybe I'm being dense today, but I don't see how this is going to work. So they have a key on your drive, they encrypt the data using this key, but at some point the data has to be decrypted and used, which means that it can be intercepted. The article isn't too

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Ray Dillinger
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Brian Lane wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html Stealth plan puts copy protection into every hard drive But because the system makes use of the physical location on the device of the encrypted item, software designed for non-compliant

Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Ken Brown
Isn't the idea that you don't get to see the surface of the disk? The copy protection is in the onboard circuitry. The drive refuses to return data from "unreadable" sectors/blocks, where readability depends on a function of the of the drive serial number, some sort of certificate in the system

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Re: Copy protection of ordinary disk drives?

2000-12-22 Thread Brian Lane
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 05:13:53PM +0100, Tom Vogt wrote: Brian Lane wrote: Maybe I'm being dense today, but I don't see how this is going to work. So they have a key on your drive, they encrypt the data using this key, but at some point the data has to be decrypted and used, which

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-22 Thread Richard Crisp
I think the attacks are far more likely to be launched by the Mainland folks against the Taiwanese rather than the other way around. The mainlanders want to destabilize Taiwan. Taiwan likes a stable mainland, because so many Taiwanese companies have set up manufacturing facilities in the mainland

Re: china-taiwan and limits of state action

2000-12-22 Thread dmolnar
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Richard Crisp wrote: I think the attacks are far more likely to be launched by the Mainland folks against the Taiwanese rather than the other way around. The mainlanders want to destabilize Taiwan. Taiwan likes a stable mainland, because so many What intrigues me about

Device could lead to hack-proof data

2000-12-22 Thread Anonymous
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Scientists have unveiled a miniature device that emits light particles, or photons, one at a time, an accomplishment which could pave the way for impregnable coded messages and electronic commerce in coming decades. In theory, such a single light particle offers