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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."
If you don't see that cause-and-effect relationships go all the way back to existence itself, then the public schools are truly doing the job they were designed to do.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
Does anyone on Slashdot ever want to pay for anything, ever? I like my free music and movies as much as the next guy, but jeez.
People shouldn't be allowed to be innovative and original.
It forces people to have to think too much, and you know how bad that is. That javascript based ouse gestures thing for example, that was a terrible idea.
Using CSS to make things autoexpand move when you mouse over them... terrible idea.
Flash animations and games... oh.. um... i forgot if I was trying to be sarcastic or not... um... yeah.. ah.
* zen goes back to what he was doing before he posted this.