From DRM to Rights Management Services

miladus writes "Microsoft has formed an academic Think Tank on Trustworthy Computing. The Academic Board is to advise Microsoft on 'security, privacy and reliability enhancements in[...] products and technologies so that Microsoft can obtain critical feedback on product and policy issues related to its Trustworthy Computing.' An interview with two members of the board is an interesting read, especially concerning the global implications of privacy. Of note, is the absence of DRM discussion. But DRM shows up as 'Rights Management Services' in the promised Widows Rights Management Services to be released later this year. it will deliver a 'platform-based approach to persistent policy rights for Web content and sensitive corporate documents of all types'"

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Widows Right Management?

[Hydrogenoid]

Is Microsoft expanding to life insurance?

Re:Widows

[TheRaven64]

There is a preview button...
A what? Oh, that thing next to submi

MS Dogfood

[Flamesplash]

Hopefully MS will eat their own dogfood on this so their memo's stop leaking out, or maybe that's the whole driving force behind this.

Do I read ...

[locknloll]

...the word "Trustworthy" in a direct connection with "Microsoft"? Wohooo... and I thought that only the Slashdot geeks had a sense of irony...

Sheesh

[Cappy Red]

Can someone get the little Mozilla beast icon to eat the little Bill Gates beast icon and put us out of our grief?

*consoles self in reality distortion field*

*honk*

Heh...

[Junta]

The acronym of that would be RMS.... RMS is evil.. No wait... that *other* RMS.......

On a sidenote, I hadn't heard about MS changing their product line to 'Widows'..... Another interesting name change...

Microsoft Widows indeed

[ubiquitin]

What do you call computer users whose digital rights have all died because of their choice of platform/license agreement? Microsoft Widows.

Re:Good stuff

[GammaTau]

MS is, in my view, breaking new ground with this; some people may not like what they are doing, but you have to admit that nobody else is putting this stuff into their OS (when there is clearly a need for it).

The problem with MS software is that after all these years it still has elemental flaws in its software. Before talking about things like confidential e-mail, they should consider supporting plaintext ASCII messages in their e-mail software. MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express choked (maybe they still do?) on messages that start with the word "begin" followed by two spaces. Their fix? You should use the word "commence" instead.

Re:Good stuff

[Col. Klink (retired)]

And the MPAA can sit back and relax because all DVD's are encrypted with CSS.

Seems like the same old crap to me.

[SatanicPuppy]

Though I find it amusing that MS is pushing it as a sort of security option instead of as a privacy invading option. "Protect sensitive corporate documents?"

From what? Have I been missing the "sensitive corporate document" section in Kazaa? Can I, without the aid of several illegal tools which I would never never never even THINK about using simply go and download sensitive corporate documents without their permission?

Besides the way corporations have been going I'm not sure that anything that increases their document security is automatically a good idea. I know they're going to screw me, but I'd rather see it coming.