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Vista DRM Prevents Kernel Tampering
mjdroner writes "A ZDNet blog reports on a new DRM feature for Vista that 'protects' the kernel from tampering. The blog quotes a Microsoft document: 'Code (CI) protects Windows Vista by verifying that system binaries haven't been tampered with by malicious code and by ensuring that there are no unsigned drivers running in kernel mode on the system.' The blog says that much of the DRM in Vista is simply a port from XP, but that this feature is new to the OS."
Yes. The sooner enough people get bent over and used by proprietary technology, the faster we can move on to something that doesn't suck like this.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
"From: (Blair P. Houghton)
I predict that Eighth Generation computers
will compile no programs, run no applications,
and access no data. Instead they will be
designed and tuned to give a continuously
variable spectrum of elegant and precise
error messages describing your failure to
induce them to do so."
Yay Vista!
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I'm an optimist by nature, so I'll say it'll take hackers 3 months to crack the kernel DRM.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.
Ah, but what about "Trusted[sic]" Platform Module drivers?
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That's a nasty cough you have there. I think you might've picked up a bug...
Cost of WinVista Kernel DRM - part of the $300 price of WinVista
Cost of hair torn out by DRM refusing to let you do what the Constitution explicity permits - $1000 for hair plugs
Cost of WinVista hack to "fix" Kernal DRM - priceless
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This is the beginning of the end, finally. In a few years, Microsoft will be irrelevant.
to which I reply
Then you're an idiot.
I swear, it's like listening to Christian zealots waiting for the rapture. "This time, by God, the world will end...nope this time...nope this time. Face it my friend, evil will always triumph because good is FOSS.
FTFA:
ensuring that there are no unsigned drivers running in kernel mode
Drivers should be running in user-mode anyway.
This is not news, or rather, it is, but only because some MS-Basher wants to spread more FUD. Stupid. No, ignorant. No, wait...what was the question again? ....Oh, pretty colors....dahhhh..
Nah you just send them the $500 from somebody's credit card that you got via your phishing scheme.
They'll "follow the money" for sure, but to where?
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It's not a hole, its a feature.