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more on FROM Intel REPLY Intel quietly embeds DRM in it's 945 chips firmware
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:25:27 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Chris Beck <cbeck () pacanukeha net> Date: May 31, 2005 10:19:29 PM EDTTo: dave () farber net, "Whiteside, Donald M" <donald.m.whiteside () intel com> Subject: Re: [IP] more on FROM Intel REPLY Intel quietly embeds DRM in it's 945 chips firmware
Dear Dave, Donald, Rumour has it David Farber, on or about 31/05/2005 8:05 PM, whispered:
From: "Whiteside, Donald M" <donald.m.whiteside () intel com>I don't want to get into a public debate with your ip audience. DTCP-IPis broadly licensed. YES, you do need to pay the license fee and sign the license to get access to certain parts of the spec; namely the crypto 'secrets'... standard practice in this space...
With all due respect Donald, it is comments like "standard practice in this
space" that really get people going.I don't know if Bruce Schneier subscribes to this list but I'm sure he could go on in great and interesting detail about exactly why security through obscurity doesn't work and that the fact that it is standard practice in that space is more of an insult than an excuse. I think I can sum up the shortcomings of the
idea in one word (OK, one acronym :) deCSS Cheers, ChrisPS - Donald, I am more than happy to not spam your inbox and leave replies
striclty to IP if that suits you better. -- Chris Beck - http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com understand, v: To reach a point, in your investigation of some subject, at which you cease to examine what is really present, and operate on the basis of your own internal model instead. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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