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Breaking Google's DRM
An anonymous reader writes "Google's new Google Print service (that lets you see scanned pages from printed books) has a pile of advanced browser-disabling DRM in it ('Pages displaying your content have print, cut, copy, and save functionality disabled in order to protect your content.'). This works with JavaScript turned off, even in Free Software browsers. Seth Schoen has posted preliminary notes on some breaks to the DRM (beyond just automating a screenshotting process), including a proposal for a circumventing proxy that would fetch Google Print pages and strip out the DRM. A full exploration of the html obfuscation and DRM employed by Google would be very interesting; certainly the ability for a remote attacker to disable critical browser features like save, right-click, copy and cut against the user's wishes is a major security vulnerability in Moz/Firefox and should be fixed ASAP."
the ability for a remote attacker to disable critical browser features like save, right-click, copy and cut against the user's wishes is a major security vulnerability in Moz/Firefox and should be fixed ASAP."
IE (and windows for that matter) have been doing things that are against my wishes for years. I guess this is a cross-platform issue.
and so begins a new age of literature piracy
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Google is not god.
Correct, Google is much more useful.
Just put your monitor on a copy machine!
60 percent of the time, my comments are right everytime.
Google is not god.
Blasphemer!
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why do they not simply create an HTML table, make it [image width] cells wide, and [image height] rows, insert a 1x1 clear gif in each cell and change the bgcolor of each cell to the color on the corresponding image?
while they work on that i'm gonna upgrade my memory.
Firefox extension to get around this in 3... 2... 1...
your geek license hath been revoked.
If someone's only business model is to put some crap on a website, charge a bunch of money for access, and hope to sit back and watch the cash roll in, I think they will be in for a rude wakeup call.
You're absolutely right.
If that worked, the internet would be full of pornography in a heartbeat.
Oh. Wait a minu..
http://request-header.info
... All I said was those search results are good enough for Jehovah!
However,
Come on, wget is for wuzzes! Real haxors just telnet to port 80 to ask for the page! ;)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I know, RIGHT? I can't imagine ANYTHING more EVIL. I think they had help from SATAN on this one!!!111!!
It's gonna go BAD for you!
What. does. God. need. with a. starship?...umm...address?
Software distributors will control your gizmos, and you won't even be able to turn them off.
:-)
Given that gizmos tend to be small, I think a simple brick would be sufficient to turn them off
In case you don't like such drastic solutions I am yet to see an electronic gizmo that functions without any of its batteries...
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
Knowing how to develop stuff like this is not a skill everyone has.
Yes, it is. This is very basic javascript sort of stuff and it is commonly seen used by 12-year olds on crappy geocities pages so that right-clicking to "save as" pops up an "OMG DONT STEAL MY PICTURES OF EMINEM!!!" error box.
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