RE: Wild and Crazy: Interview with Palladium's Mario Juarez

2002-07-05 Thread Lucky Green
pasward writes: In other words, when the MB is fried because of some freak electrical surge, I'm screwed, because I can't put the HD into another machine and get the data off it? You will probably need to re-install the OS from CDROM on the new machine. Which shouldn't be a big problem,

Absurdity? (Was: Ross's TCPA paper)

2002-07-05 Thread Hadmut Danisch
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:14:27AM +0100, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:54:11PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote: [backdoored network cards] I don't think so. As far as I understood, the bus system (PCI,...) will be encrypted as well. You'll have to use a NIC which is

Re: New Chips Can Keep a Tight Rein on Consumers

2002-07-05 Thread Pete Chown
Peter Gutmann wrote: Actually I'm amazed no printer vendor has ever gone after companies who produce third-party Smartchips for remanufactured printer cartridges. This sounds like the perfect thing to hit with the DMCA universal hammer. There is no copyright issue, though. The DMCA only