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."

Comments

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[grazzy]

Google is not god.

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[Bingo Foo]

Well, perhaps God has written fewer lines of code, but as far as usefulness is concerned, I'll take existence over cool tech any day.

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[rmezzari]

And also happens to exist too!

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[Soul-Burn666]

The grandparents talked about God and Google. I see how Google is cool tech, but I don't see a connection between existance and something that couldn't be explained better than me here and here.

Re:That explains those mysterious hirings

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

I for one, welcome our new corporate, DMCA-wielding, Google overlords.

Existance is a precondition

[SuperKendall]

I think it may be you that needs your licence revoked, when the original poster is noting that existance is a *precondition* to cool tech!

Think of the tech tree in Civilization, just with "existance" at the root of the tree and being given to you to at the start.