Microsoft Research Builds 'BrowserShield'

SteelyBen writes "Researchers at Microsoft have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages, instead showing users safe equivalents of those pages. The BrowserShield project, an outgrowth of the company's 'Shield' initiative, could one day even become Microsoft's answer to zero-day browser exploits such as the WMF (Windows Metafile) attack that spread like wildfire in December 2005."

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Exactly !

[Shohat]

Hi ... Firefox (untweaked) can easily take more mem than WinXP Pro+20 services combined ... Just a quik reminder that the most popular alternative is no better ...

Re:That's not even the real danger...

[Ph33r th3 g(O)at]

Certificate Revocation List, anyone? Read John Walker's Digital Imprimatur--it shows exactly how Digital Restrictions Management infrastructure such as that being built by Microsoft can be used to inhibit freedom of speech. Opposition to DRM isn't just about music and movies, despite what corporations and governments would like us to think.

TC

[Anonymous Coward]

How about once it is in the form of hardware soldered to your motherboard? How about once they get some law passed where you need that chip to access the net, no correct handshake from the module, no access?

No that hasn't happened yet but you can smell it coming now. And they'll pass those sorts of laws based on protecting the childrens and not aiding the tarrists and defeating the e-vile pirates an stuff like that.

Ya, you can stockpile mobos now, but that still won't let you on the net later. Might take them several years, but they won't stop trying, and they have the cash to buy laws.

Re:TC

[base3]

Exactly--mod parent up!

Re:That's not even the real danger...

[JimDaGeek]

DRM is a set of technology which enforces rules governing the access or use of content...

And exactly what is "content"? IMO, content is just about anything on your computer. Maybe in your world content is just what the media companies put out, but in my world, any output from a program is content. Who gets to create these "rules" that governs access to content? We already have _laws_ that govern access to content, those laws are copyright laws and we don't need any arbitrary "rules" on top of copyright laws.

...typically in a manner enforcing a contract previously agreed upon by both parties. Nothing more, nothing less.

Boy, what la-la-land do you live in? Or are you an employee of a media company trying to spread misinformation? DRM is not used how you suggest at all. Go in to a music store and buy a music CD. During that purchase you do not agree to any explicit contract. You do agree to an implicit contract called copyright. However, the way DRM is used on those CD's is to actully break the copyright contract in favor of the content owner by preventing uses that copyright allows such as fair-use, the ability to back up, format shift, etc. I have not seen on instance of DRM being used to only make sure that copyright laws are followed. Every instance of DRM use I have seen has shown me that the purpose of the DRM is to restrict users beyond what normal copyright laws allow.