On 5/22/06, Tom Bachmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 16:45 +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote:
>>> I do not believe so. The transparency of the bank is completely
>>> orthogonal to whether the bank can be authenticated as a particular type
>>> of bank.
>>>
>> Yes, of course. But if I have access to the programs memory, I can patch
>> the test if(opaque_bank(my_bank)) go_on();else abort(); to if(true) ...
>
> As I understand matters, the current proposal is for *read* access, not
> *write* access...
>
I am not sure if we can speak about something like a "current proposal"
(at least I can't see where it has been stated).
But yes, this is only true for write access, of course.
And it's been indeed said that disallowing write access is already DRM
and it is unacceptable ..
Thanks
Michal
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