The RIAA today announced the failure of its first attempt at creating a secure music delivery system.
A spokeman commented 'We overlooked the human angle. If you can hear it or see it, you can hack it.'
Accordingly the RIAA intends to create SDMI 2, directly addressing this issue. The decryption process will be delayed until the last possible moment and hardwired onto a sealed chip.
The spokeman added 'By moving the location of the decryption process we can minimise the risk of a successful hack occurring. We recogise that this mean implanting the chip into every human brain on the planet but our IP is important to us.'
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The expected costs of the surgery required are likely to be below what would have otherwise been spent on failed technologies, lawyers and payments to successful hackers.
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I am writing to urge you to object to the The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, 2000 in its current form. As drafted the Bill appears to have a number of unintended consequences and its scope is excessive. In particular the granting of a general right to monitor international correspondence is meaningless in the context of the Internet where cross-border traffic is routine. Indeed this message could have travelled outside the UK - your mail could now be subject to monitoring. You may like to consider comparisions with Russia where Internet Service Providers are compelled to co-operate with the Security Services in what appears a similar fashion. Furthermore, I routinely use encryption - everytime I buy on-line. Were an 'decryption' order to be served on myself I could not provide the key as this protection is applied automatically. How can this help the Government's stated aim of encouraging e-commerce and Internet adoption? While I appreciate the intentions behind this power it cannot work in practice. Indeed it could be counter-productive. Criminals - which I would be if I forgot a password - could easily feed incorrect or misleading information to the Security Services (if the requirement is for plain text). They would also be aware of the possible insecurity of electronic communications and take steps to mitigate this risk making the law inforcement task more difficult. Further details of these significant flaws in the Bill and some suggested changes can be found at "http://www.stand.org.uk/ripnotes/". I hope you will give this matter some thought. Regards
As Ford intends to promote 'computer literacy' why not make the machine dual booting? It wouldn't cost anymore (just change the disc image).
Additional tech support requirements should be minimal as the majority of people would just use Windows (anti-flame comment: additional is the key word in that sentence).
However, a few of the more adventurous would try Linux and get much more computer literate as a result. They might even get more productive with the inevitable increase in 'uptime'
... when they said they said that they weren't announcing OEM deals to focus attention onto the chip itself. Its going to take more than Diamond to make Crusoe work but its a good start. And its good to see Diamond innovating again after the disaster that is RioPMP500.
Interesting article talking about the impact on other chip/OS companies.
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The RIAA today announced the failure of its first attempt at creating a secure music delivery system.
A spokeman commented 'We overlooked the human angle. If you can hear it or see it, you can hack it.'
Accordingly the RIAA intends to create SDMI 2, directly addressing this issue. The decryption process will be delayed until the last possible moment and hardwired onto a sealed chip.
The spokeman added 'By moving the location of the decryption process we can minimise the risk of a successful hack occurring. We recogise that this mean implanting the chip into every human brain on the planet but our IP is important to us.'
Note for editors:
The expected costs of the surgery required are likely to be below what would have otherwise been spent on failed technologies, lawyers and payments to successful hackers.
Its not flamebait but a pukka site (and amusing at that).
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Sorry, forgot to post as text rather than HMTL hence paragraphs disappeared.
I am writing to urge you to object to the The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill, 2000 in its current form. As drafted the Bill appears to have a number of unintended consequences and its scope is excessive. In particular the granting of a general right to monitor international correspondence is meaningless in the context of the Internet where cross-border traffic is routine. Indeed this message could have travelled outside the UK - your mail could now be subject to monitoring. You may like to consider comparisions with Russia where Internet Service Providers are compelled to co-operate with the Security Services in what appears a similar fashion. Furthermore, I routinely use encryption - everytime I buy on-line. Were an 'decryption' order to be served on myself I could not provide the key as this protection is applied automatically. How can this help the Government's stated aim of encouraging e-commerce and Internet adoption? While I appreciate the intentions behind this power it cannot work in practice. Indeed it could be counter-productive. Criminals - which I would be if I forgot a password - could easily feed incorrect or misleading information to the Security Services (if the requirement is for plain text). They would also be aware of the possible insecurity of electronic communications and take steps to mitigate this risk making the law inforcement task more difficult. Further details of these significant flaws in the Bill and some suggested changes can be found at "http://www.stand.org.uk/ripnotes/". I hope you will give this matter some thought. Regards
http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm
Watch out for the RIAA lawsuit.
As Ford intends to promote 'computer literacy' why not make the machine dual booting? It wouldn't cost anymore (just change the disc image).
Additional tech support requirements should be minimal as the majority of people would just use Windows (anti-flame comment: additional is the key word in that sentence).
However, a few of the more adventurous would try Linux and get much more computer literate as a result. They might even get more productive with the inevitable increase in 'uptime'
Ford are you listening?
MM
A company is known by the people it keeps...
... when they said they said that they weren't announcing OEM deals to focus attention onto the chip itself. Its going to take more than Diamond to make Crusoe work but its a good start. And its good to see Diamond innovating again after the disaster that is RioPMP500.
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Interesting article talking about the impact on other chip/OS companies.
http://www.uk-invest.com/homepage/breakingnews.