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DRM in Real-Time and Embedded Systems
An anonymous reader writes "In this guest column at LinuxDevices.com, Victor Yodaiken speculates on the implications (and potential catastrophic consequences) of Digital Rights Management Passport (DRMP) technology to embedded, real-time, and mission critical computer systems. Quoting from the article: "When a technology gets pervasively embedded in microprocessors, computer boards, and software, it will alter the performance of power turbines, jet engines, medical instruments, cell phones and missile guidance systems. Unfortunately, DRMP technology is incompatible with security and with the kinds of reliability needed in safety critical or mission critical applications.""
DRM in rocket launching chips might indeed have strange effects
... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... LIFT OFF
Operator:
Launch System: launch operation aborted, you do not have the rights to "the final countdown"
"Son, in a sporting event, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get" - Homer J. Simpson
Sir, the missile headed for the terrorist traing camp is changing it's coordinates! It looks like it's targeting the house of a Kazaa user.
I still love the smell of napalm in the morning though.
"When a technology gets pervasively embedded in microprocessors, computer boards, and software, it will alter the performance of power turbines, jet engines, medical instruments, cell phones and missile guidance systems."
I'd hate to see a scalpel go bezerk in the middle of an operation - curse you technology.
--it will alter the performance of power turbines, jet engines, medical instruments, cell phones and missile guidance systems.
;)
I can't believe it... a last a positive use for DRM hardware !
Karma cannot be described by words alone.
In other news, the US launched a Nuclear Strike against China today.
Hillary Rosen had warned China of the implications of the nation's failure to address music Piracy.
"We warned them there would be severe implications, especially after our merger with the BSA brought software piracy under our jurisdiction."
The RIAA used the Digital Rights override software installed in all US computer systems to launch 12% of the US nuclear arsenal at strategic locations in the piracy prone nation.
"We have to protect the profit margins of the music industry. Musicians have a right to profit from their work, no matter what any one government wants."
When a CNN reporter brought up the potential legal implications of such a move, Ms. Rosen replied, "I don't think that's an issue. If I, or any other member of the RIAA is arrested, the President's pacemaker will automatically disconnect, as will the embedded medical devices in the bodies of half the US Senators. We will simply revoke the digital rights of those devices, thus rendering them inoperable."
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
(start sarcasam)Yep, Intel should be responsible for incorporating DRM into our current technology. It isn't like they violate any copy right, patent laws, or IP theft. Hell, when their new line of processors come out (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/11/03122 2&mode=thread&tid=118) I'm sure this technology will be fully functional, and we'll never notice it(end sarcasam)
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
A detachment of special forces is pinned down by enemy fire. The bad guys have found a bug in the special forces target tracking software that allows them to confuse it, maybe by putting out heat sources that are right on the threshold of what is flagged as a target by the software. The good guys fix their program in the field, correct the bug and reinstall. The DRM agent rejects the new software and prints a little message: You have tried to run unlicensed software on this processor.
He underestimates the military, take the Marines for example, they are men who solve problems by eliminating their causes. After the first instance of this happening the word will spread quickly in the software developer community of how a bunch of angry Marines showed up at Microsoft HQ (DMRP division) and rammed armed stick grenades up the developers Rectums before pulling all the pins with a string (Paralell processing).
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
Yep. Still is 11th October 102 at my website-host's site. They don't care: IE5 is broken enough to allow it.