Clever, but really using them on an unwilling front-seated passenger would probably violate some FAA reg and/or cause a nice uniformed person to be waiting for you atlanding.
Apple will be on board with DRM; they're going to market the Mac as an entertainment platform. They're just smart enough to avoid taking the PR and financial hit associated with actually joining the TCPA. Don't deify Apple--they're out to screw us as much as if not more than the Microsoft/Intel/AMD/TCPA Digital Restrictions Management alliance. Look at iTunes, for example--"kind, gentle" DRM, also known as the camel's nose underneath the tent.
(Disclaimer: I'm a programmer at Guidance Software, and work on EnCase.)
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I have and use PGP and have no fear that it'll ever be used as evidence against me.
Yep, I imagine you don't:).
Of course, the prosecution would just argue that you used your expertise and inside knowledge of forensic software to hide your child porn so well that none could be found on your drive. However, the logs that might be used to frame you could be pretty damning . ..
"He was using encryption, so he must have something to hide" as an argument for the prosecution is another nail in the (admittedly already pretty much shut) Fourth Amendment's coffin.
Oh, yeah, just what we need in the private sector--Cold War era security paranoia that intrudes on employees' private lives. I got enough PRP in the military, thank you very much. It's nice not having to pee in a bottle on demand and to be able to get decent painkillers when they're needed.
See, the "forcing" thing seems a little excessive. I mean, did Bill send one of his minions to put a gun in Michael Dell's mouth? I was under the impression that this was a contract, not a deal orchestrated by Michael Corleone. And the effect on the customer is exactly the same--s/he pays for an operating system whether he wants it or not.
But I still have to pay for OS X. It's not as if they allowed the dealer to unbundle it. So the effect is the same, except that with a Microsoft OEM, I might have to buy a CD from Cheapbytes if I want to install Linux.
So if Microsoft buys Dell, then everything is cool. So the issue is that Microsoft "forced" a multi-billion dollar company to bundle its operating system. More likely, Microsoft offered Dell a deal, and Dell willingly took it. They probably pay $10 a box for Windows instead of $200, and pass that on whether the customer wants it or not (marked up a bit, of course). So again, it's pretty much the same thing as Apple's doing, without the technicality of Microsoft owning Dell.
(I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft buy a large PC manufacturer to get TCPA/NGCSB/Palladium off the ground, but that's neither here nor there. And mark my words, Apple will produce "trusted computers" once they've let Microsoft, Intel, and all take the PR flak.)
And right now, there'll be no commercials, until broadcast radio is pretty much dead. Then, like with cable TV, you'll get to pay and endure commercials.
I do remember the DR-DOS and Windows 3.1 issue. There was a version check in a *beta* of Windows 3.1 to ensure Windows 3.1 wasn't running on an unsupported OS. Of course, the fact that they encrypted the code didn't make them look so good, but lots of software checks the platform on which it's running and refuses to run on unsupported ones--while we may not like that, it doesn't lend itself to accusations of monopolistic practice.
With respect to OEMs, where can I buy my iMac at a discount if I don't want Mac OS X? They force me to buy OS X with the hardware, which is no different that what Microsoft is doing.
If Microsoft trampled over a business' IP rights like this, they'd be hammered in the press, in blogs like this one, and harassed by the courts. But Apple can do it, and since they're all sweetness and light, they also get a pass on advocating DRM, making DMCA threats, and maintaining an OS monopoly. Go figure.
Those licenses are an end run around copyright. If there were no copyright, they wouldn't be necessary. But they're ingeniously constructed so that for the license to be invalid, so must copyright, which is a brilliant hack that I wish I could have conceived. They hoist copyright with its own petard.
7) The ability to build in DRM from processor pin to trusted display requires Apple-like complete control of the hardware platform. Once endorsement keys are turned on (won't be at first--frog boiling and all that), this platform will only run Microsoft's "trusted" OS.
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And don't forget that as a member of a domain, a GPO can cause an EFS key to be escrowed with the admininstrators. So if you're thinking this will hide your MP3z at work from the domain admins or SMS sweeps, no go. (Of course, if the filesystem is mounted during an SMS enumeration/collection sweep, it doesn't matter what encryption you're using.)
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Which is probably really the goal behind this sudden rash of reporting of high-profile data leaks. (/me adjusts his tinfoil hat.)
Clever, but really using them on an unwilling front-seated passenger would probably violate some FAA reg and/or cause a nice uniformed person to be waiting for you atlanding.
I've already made a subdirectory under ~/suppressed.
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And don't forget that the "D" in Pentium-D stands for DRM.
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Probably because he didn't see that you're using an until-today dormant troll ID registered awhile back.
Apple will be on board with DRM; they're going to market the Mac as an entertainment platform. They're just smart enough to avoid taking the PR and financial hit associated with actually joining the TCPA. Don't deify Apple--they're out to screw us as much as if not more than the Microsoft/Intel/AMD/TCPA Digital Restrictions Management alliance. Look at iTunes, for example--"kind, gentle" DRM, also known as the camel's nose underneath the tent.
True. The next generation of Dell Optiplexes is going to carry the TCPA "Trusted Platform Module" Fritz/Digital Restrictions Management chip.
There's still Cyrix.
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I have and use PGP and have no fear that it'll ever be used as evidence against me.
Yep, I imagine you don't :).
Of course, the prosecution would just argue that you used your expertise and inside knowledge of forensic software to hide your child porn so well that none could be found on your drive. However, the logs that might be used to frame you could be pretty damning . . .
"He was using encryption, so he must have something to hide" as an argument for the prosecution is another nail in the (admittedly already pretty much shut) Fourth Amendment's coffin.
Oh, yeah, just what we need in the private sector--Cold War era security paranoia that intrudes on employees' private lives. I got enough PRP in the military, thank you very much. It's nice not having to pee in a bottle on demand and to be able to get decent painkillers when they're needed.
See, the "forcing" thing seems a little excessive. I mean, did Bill send one of his minions to put a gun in Michael Dell's mouth? I was under the impression that this was a contract, not a deal orchestrated by Michael Corleone. And the effect on the customer is exactly the same--s/he pays for an operating system whether he wants it or not.
So again, the only difference is that Apple happens to own the hardware they're force-bundling with. Big deal.
But I still have to pay for OS X. It's not as if they allowed the dealer to unbundle it. So the effect is the same, except that with a Microsoft OEM, I might have to buy a CD from Cheapbytes if I want to install Linux.
So Apple's selling dual boot Linux systems now? If not, I still don't see a difference, other than that Microsoft was prosecuted and Apple wasn't.
(I wouldn't be surprised to see Microsoft buy a large PC manufacturer to get TCPA/NGCSB/Palladium off the ground, but that's neither here nor there. And mark my words, Apple will produce "trusted computers" once they've let Microsoft, Intel, and all take the PR flak.)
And right now, there'll be no commercials, until broadcast radio is pretty much dead. Then, like with cable TV, you'll get to pay and endure commercials.
With respect to OEMs, where can I buy my iMac at a discount if I don't want Mac OS X? They force me to buy OS X with the hardware, which is no different that what Microsoft is doing.
So you concede then, that Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly, because Linux is available for the PC. Fair enough.
If Microsoft trampled over a business' IP rights like this, they'd be hammered in the press, in blogs like this one, and harassed by the courts. But Apple can do it, and since they're all sweetness and light, they also get a pass on advocating DRM, making DMCA threats, and maintaining an OS monopoly. Go figure.
Those licenses are an end run around copyright. If there were no copyright, they wouldn't be necessary. But they're ingeniously constructed so that for the license to be invalid, so must copyright, which is a brilliant hack that I wish I could have conceived. They hoist copyright with its own petard.
7) The ability to build in DRM from processor pin to trusted display requires Apple-like complete control of the hardware platform. Once endorsement keys are turned on (won't be at first--frog boiling and all that), this platform will only run Microsoft's "trusted" OS.
That is an excellent idea!
And don't forget that as a member of a domain, a GPO can cause an EFS key to be escrowed with the admininstrators. So if you're thinking this will hide your MP3z at work from the domain admins or SMS sweeps, no go. (Of course, if the filesystem is mounted during an SMS enumeration/collection sweep, it doesn't matter what encryption you're using.)