I'm not sure how you extrapolated that. What makes you think the DRM code is going to be somehow "more resistant" to buffer exploits? It just shifts the focus from the "media viewer" portion to the "DRM decoder" portion of the software. But there are still buffers involved.
Well, in an ideal world, the access to buffer itself would have to be managed through rights for security. As someone already mentioned, every single piece of data would have to be authenticated for the parser to give an okay.
Besides, if you're passing "unprotected" content around you'll still have these issues. Not every JPG is going to suddenly be digitally signed and encrypted. Assuming the same "media viewer" application, you'll have the same bugs. If anything, the DRM code just adds another layer of interpretation that's open to attack, making your system "less safe" rather than "more safe." More code == more potential for bugs.
Of course, I agree, I just think that we have to rethink the whole software development concept from a security-centric point of view. It seems that we're reaching some kind of threshold using the old model. Please excuse the generality, but many companies have been trying too hard with a minimal result. I think the answer may lie with some hardware-based solution disguised as a convenient periphery, and we're starting to see some of those already in financial sectors.
It's a tangental thought, but the debate around online security, including this one, seems to be paving a wide path for DRM, or more centrally-managed content distribution methods in commercial applications.
Well, considering the experience that I had with a youth group that I had served some time ago, I can totally understand why they would suspend such a spoiled student.
It's unfortunate that a lot of Korean "child prodigies" of the past are now only living mediocre lives as novelists or in other professions trying to eke out a living. Socially or academically, Korean society in general isn't very well suited to nurture talented people. I guess that goes for other nations as well. That may be why the brain drainage has been going on for decades now without any forseeable slow down. I just hope that he would live a fruitful life, and that people around him wouldn't make the mistake of imprinting his young heart with the all the fallen things of humanity.
Personally, I'd prefer to be around someone with a good character than someone with hyper intelligence and no character.
It's interesting to see that one of the major Internet portal companies has brought up this issue because most of Korean sites are built around Microsoft's Internet Explorer rather than other browsers which are more in agreement with Internet standards.
Well, that's what editors do for Britannica and other encyclopedias. They'd be the once deciding whether or not it's stable or not. Editors spend time. Time costs money. Therefore, Wikipedia board needs money.
I think you presume too much, and rather too simply, if you state that profit is the sole motivation in developing bird flu vaccines. And French cream of humanistic arrogance seems to seep throughout your sentences. Some dogs are known to have given their lives to save others. I think I've read about more people dying for other people than dogs. Why wouldn't someone consider giving his life developing the vaccine? Of course, you may be stating in such way to balance out the other end of the spectrum, but basically, why do laws exist? It exists FOR the people, not the other way around. Even the patent laws exist FOR the people. We're dealing with real lives here. You seem to be making a case for the interest of those with patents versus those without them at the cost of people's lives. I'm sure things would look starkly different if the situation hit closer to our homes. Wake up, America, and smell not the coffee, but the grieving sounds of the world against you.
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I'm not sure how you extrapolated that. What makes you think the DRM code is going to be somehow "more resistant" to buffer exploits? It just shifts the focus from the "media viewer" portion to the "DRM decoder" portion of the software. But there are still buffers involved. Well, in an ideal world, the access to buffer itself would have to be managed through rights for security. As someone already mentioned, every single piece of data would have to be authenticated for the parser to give an okay. Besides, if you're passing "unprotected" content around you'll still have these issues. Not every JPG is going to suddenly be digitally signed and encrypted. Assuming the same "media viewer" application, you'll have the same bugs. If anything, the DRM code just adds another layer of interpretation that's open to attack, making your system "less safe" rather than "more safe." More code == more potential for bugs. Of course, I agree, I just think that we have to rethink the whole software development concept from a security-centric point of view. It seems that we're reaching some kind of threshold using the old model. Please excuse the generality, but many companies have been trying too hard with a minimal result. I think the answer may lie with some hardware-based solution disguised as a convenient periphery, and we're starting to see some of those already in financial sectors.
It's a tangental thought, but the debate around online security, including this one, seems to be paving a wide path for DRM, or more centrally-managed content distribution methods in commercial applications.
Well, considering the experience that I had with a youth group that I had served some time ago, I can totally understand why they would suspend such a spoiled student.
It's unfortunate that a lot of Korean "child prodigies" of the past are now only living mediocre lives as novelists or in other professions trying to eke out a living. Socially or academically, Korean society in general isn't very well suited to nurture talented people. I guess that goes for other nations as well. That may be why the brain drainage has been going on for decades now without any forseeable slow down. I just hope that he would live a fruitful life, and that people around him wouldn't make the mistake of imprinting his young heart with the all the fallen things of humanity. Personally, I'd prefer to be around someone with a good character than someone with hyper intelligence and no character.
Looks like Microsoft learned few things from North Korea after all.
It's interesting to see that one of the major Internet portal companies has brought up this issue because most of Korean sites are built around Microsoft's Internet Explorer rather than other browsers which are more in agreement with Internet standards.
Well, that's what editors do for Britannica and other encyclopedias. They'd be the once deciding whether or not it's stable or not. Editors spend time. Time costs money. Therefore, Wikipedia board needs money.
I think you presume too much, and rather too simply, if you state that profit is the sole motivation in developing bird flu vaccines. And French cream of humanistic arrogance seems to seep throughout your sentences. Some dogs are known to have given their lives to save others. I think I've read about more people dying for other people than dogs. Why wouldn't someone consider giving his life developing the vaccine? Of course, you may be stating in such way to balance out the other end of the spectrum, but basically, why do laws exist? It exists FOR the people, not the other way around. Even the patent laws exist FOR the people. We're dealing with real lives here. You seem to be making a case for the interest of those with patents versus those without them at the cost of people's lives. I'm sure things would look starkly different if the situation hit closer to our homes. Wake up, America, and smell not the coffee, but the grieving sounds of the world against you.