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MS Palladium Patent

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the click-here-to-upgrade dept.

Concerned Citizen writes "cryptome has Microsoft's patent for Palladium. Including such gems as: 2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein protecting the rights-managed data comprises: refusing to load the untrusted program into memory. 14. The computerized method of claim 1, further comprising: restricting a user to a subset of available functions for manipulating the rights-managed data. And I'm sure we'll all be coerced to agree to Palliadium during a future security patch agreement."

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  1. Yeah, but I don't think it was Microsoft... by da+cog · · Score: 5, Funny

    I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of server processes suddenly cried out in terror, and suddenly silenced.

    I feel something terrible has happened.

    *** SOME TIME LATER ***

    KONQUEROR: Our position's correct except... no cryptome.org.

    ME: What do you mean? Where is it?

    KONQUEROR: That's what I'm trying to tell you, kid, it ain't there. It's been totally blown away.

    ME: How?

    It's been destroyed... by the Slashdot.

    KONQUEROR: The Slashdot crowd couldn't take down the whole site! It would take ten thousand people with more free time than I've...

    *Alarm bell goes off* ...*** TO BE CONTINUED ***

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