On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jason Holt wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Ross Werner wrote: > > Try this thought experiment: you come up with any hypothetical DRM system > > for an open-source system. This system is _always_ going to have to > > It's a stretch, but not impossible. You have the code, but the binaries are > signed, and you only get access to the restricted data using the signed > binaries.
I tweak the source so that it uses the original signed binaries to deliver the required information to the central server instead of the information from the actual binary I'm running. (This tactic has been used many times over, in AIM clients for example. It doesn't even require open source for it to work, necessarily, although that usually makes it easier.) ~ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
