On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:38:25AM -0800, Ed Gerck wrote:
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> Tal Garfinkel wrote:
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> > The value of these type of controls that they help users you basically
> > trust who might be careless, stupid, lazy or confused to do the right
> > thing (however the right
> DRM can't really control what humans do and there is no commercial
> value in saying that a document that I see cannot be printed or
> forwarded -- because it can.
I believe you are overlooking the assumed threat model, and thus the
value of document control systems like the one that Microsoft i
> Software-based attacks are redistributable. Once I write a program
> that hacks a computer, I can give that program to anyone to use. I
> can even give it to everyone, and then anyone could use it. The
> expertise necessary can be abstracted away into a program even my
> mother could use.
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