yinepuhotep ([info]yinepuhotep) wrote,
@ 2007-07-23 07:27:00
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Entry tags:computers, drm, windows

The World's Longest Suicide Note
Also known as Windows Vista Content Protection.

A relevant quote from the article:

In fact, Microsoft is imposing a higher standard of security for premium content than what's been required in the past for any known secure computing initiative proposed for protecting data classified at TOP SECRET or TS/SCI levels (the closest that anything came to what's required in Vista was the LOCK kernel with SIDEARM and BED coprocessors (PDF link), which didn't go as far as the Vista requirements and after 17 years of development effort was a commercial failure to boot). Just to make this point clear, the level of security that Vista is trying to achieve to protect video and audio is more extreme than anything the US government has ever considered necessary for protecting its most sensitive classified data.



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[info]yinepusayi
2007-07-25 12:52 pm UTC (link)
Nate and I used to think that one commercial with the PC vs MAC was funny when PC got Vista, but then Nate had to get a new computer and it came with, you guessed it. It's actually become quite an amusing game to watch him get all frustrated and try not to scream at his computer when that little window pops up asking him if he wants to 'cancel' or 'allow' something.

BTW, if you haven't seen that commerical here's the link to it on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxOIebkmrqs

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