Get a better supervisor, or apply the cluebat. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Chilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 15:31 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection ( was Re: Open Office and Vista)
You or I might not. My supervisor would. Tom > > On 7 Mar 2007, at 23:10, Kurt Buff wrote: > > 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]
