In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Young writes:
>Microsoft's patent for a Digital Rights Management
>Operating System was awarded yesterday:
>
> http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm
>
My first reaction was to yawn -- that patent seems to be useful on
insecure systems, since on a secure system you don't have to worry
about running untrusted and trusted applications simultaneously.
Besides, the point of a patent is to prevent people from doing certain
things, and I have no particular interest in doing digital rights
management.
But then I thought of the relationship between this patent and the
SSCA, and it didn't seem funny any more.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
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