Hi:
This is interesting, but hacking into any of the
stand-alone digital readers seems like an easy task.
My PC recognizes it and, perhaps, even this
BrailleNote. Any hacker worth their weight could
grab all the hidden files in a very few minutes.
Have you heard this from the NLS? I could download
books and change the file type using a conversion
program; so, I do not see the point of this
argument.
And, no, I have no intension to do anything sneaky.
I have read and signed the Bard agreements and
warnings.
JD Townsend
Helping the light dependent to see.
Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Lee <[email protected]
To: BrailleNote List <[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:09:08 -0700
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] USA - digital books
---- Original Message ------
From: Flint Million <[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] USA - digital books
Date sent: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:48:06 -0500
The NLS seems very against the idea of allowing any
device aside
from
dedicated players to play the content.
Here's why:
The NLS's authorization system is completely
dependent on a
handful of
secret decryption keys. The algorithms and
procedures are
completely
open, and the algorithms themselves are industry
standard, open
source
techniques. This is actually the best way to
implement a crypto
system
- you don't want any of the security to be by
obscurity.
however, what we're dealing with is a DRM system.
The downfall
of any
DRM system is the very fact that there must be a way
for hte
content
to be decrypted by a legal user. Take DVD players
for example.
The
content on the discs is encrypted so cannot be
easily copied.
However,
your DVD player must have the decryption keys inside
of it in
order to
be able to decrypt the content for legal playback.
If your
player did
not have the keys, the content would be secure -
against
everyone,
including the legal users!
To make matters worse, allowing DRM decryption on a
standard PC
(like
with DVD playback software and so on) opens up the
gate for
millions
and millions of hackers to tear into the code,
disassembling it,
studying it, and inevitably gathering the necessary
decryption
keys.
Armed with these keys, a user then need only apply
them to the
encrypted content to retrieve the completely
unprotected data
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