Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics

2003-01-09 Thread David Turner
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 10:17, Birger Toedtmann wrote: David Turner schrieb am Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:29:39PM -0500: On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 05:50, Pete Chown wrote: With DVDs we have a complex situation. Supposedly studios can make more per film, so they can afford to make more

RE: A talk on Intellectual Property and National Defense

2003-02-04 Thread David Turner
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 12:36, Trei, Peter wrote: Dave: Adam is correct - I was responding to him. 'secure remote attestation that the boot sequence was followed' seems to imply that a net connection back to Hollywood would be required to boot. That's simply not true. TCPA and

Re: Microsoft: Palladium will not limit what you can run

2003-03-24 Thread David Turner
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 05:12, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Anonymous wrote: Microsoft's point with regard to DRM has always been that Palladium had other uses besides that one which everyone was focused on. Obviously Of course it's useful. Does the usefulness outweigh the

Re: Who's afraid of Mallory Wolf?

2003-03-24 Thread David Turner
Grigg counts the benefits of living in a MITM-protected world (no MITM attacks recorded), as though they would happen with or without MITM protection. Is there any reason to believe that's this is, in fact, true? That is, if zero dollars were spent on MITM protection, would there still be no