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DRM in Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tiny-police dept.

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.""

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  1. FIBRTH POTHERBT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Possibly. You think?

  2. This guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is obviously a Linux Zealot(TM) and is full of sheiat.

    That is all.

  3. Linux.cx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Runs on windows 2000

  4. MOD THIS UP, +5 FUNNY!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    obviously, slashbots have no sense of humor. jokes like M$ sux0rs get modded up without fail, while legitimately funny posts get the shaft.

    please correct this injustice now, moderators.

  5. Re:the final countdown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All DRM makes me think of this

  6. hjkhjkhjljk;jvnm gu;puil;ykkgdhkk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Blah

  7. Re:not exactly... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ridiculous - worthy of ridicule
    not rediculous

  8. the sky is falling. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Missles have been launched successfully
    for over 50 years now. . .

    long before LINUX or RTOS's were
    ever invented.

    They don't let idiots do this work.

  9. you are SICK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wasn't your brand of hate already copyrighted
    by HITLER and the NAZI's.

    My guess is that you are secretly a pedophile
    your self.

    What you think about your augment in your life.
    You are a SICK person.

  10. So, you're saying "Capitalism bad"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...but Orwellian INGSOC is better? Uh, yeah, lets start the revolution, brother!

    Idiot.