Tram Town
Saturday, January 06, 2007
| Category: DRM On the latest Security Now podcast (whixh can be found here) Steve Gibson gives a nice potted history of DRM and then refers to a paper about the implementation of DRM in Vista. The "Executive Executive Summary" of the paper reads as follows: The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.The paper is well written and, while long, is TramTown-recommended reading for all IT professionals. Amongst the surprises: Say you've just bought Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", released as a Super Audio CD (SACD) in its 30th anniversary edition in 2003, and you want to play it under Vista. Since the S/PDIF link to your amplifier/speakers is regarded as insecure, Vista disables it, and you end up hearing a performance by Marcel Marceau instead of Pink Floyd.It all smells a bit like a FUD campaign but it certainly warrants a watchful eye for a little while before buying a news PC. I wonder how the uglier aspects of this stuff will work in Parallels???! Anyway, I heartily recommend Security Now. If you need a primer in anything security it is worth going through old episodes to find relevant material. Just One Guy's Opinion™. |
