Considering that Mr. Gutman has written one of the seminal papers on data erasure for magenetic media, and is an extremely well-known and respected member of the IT community, I'd not worry about that lack of peer review too much.
Kurt -----Original Message----- From: Tom Chilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 14:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection (was Re: Open Office and Vista) Harold, I appreciate your effort on my behalf however it still is not what one would call a reliable academic (and peer reviewed) source just because it is current hosted on (somebody's personal pages on) an academic institution's webspace. It even refers to itself as "an obscure technical post to a security mailing list." On the other hand most of guy's sources are from the horse's mouth and providing he has paraphrased them correctly (I've not read the sources) the argument is compelling. I agree with the POV being put across and am suitably disgusted with MS and to a lesser extent Apple on the whole 'Trusted Computing' concept. Tom PS when an article states: "it's possible that there may be some inaccuracies present" about itself, it is safe to say it cannot be referenced as an academic source for any kind of paper whether it is for an assignment or a journal. On 7 Mar 2007, at 21:29, Harold Fuchs wrote: Tom Chilton wrote: >> MIT "academic" enough? > > Unfortunately not, as far as I can tell none of these sources have > undergone an independent review process, but rather are MIT's > strategy for 'dealing' with the (*ahem* problem of) Vista. However > they are useful and appreciated nonetheless. > > Tom > Slightly more off topic than the original thread subject but also more telling ... http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html Oh, and "academic" too ;-) -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
