IP: Sony's MagicGate technology....

[David Farber <dfarber () fast net>]

> To: dfarber () fast net
> Subject: Sony's MagicGate technology....
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:52:38 -0500
> From: "Mike O'Dell" <mo () gonzo ccr org>
>
> sony is already shipping products which do this media encryption
> thing. the MemoryStick technology has been revised to be
> MagicGate MemoryStick and it has the crypto chip in the stick
> as well as in the devices which use them.
>
> sony's web site also talks about OpenMG - "Open Magic Gate"
> (boy, there's an award-winning oxymoron) which is designed
> to work with "disk drives".
>
> i was about to buy a Sony thing which used the MagicGate
> MemoryStick things, but decided to do a little checking,
> and i'm now buying a non-Sony unit.
>
> see http://www9.station.sony.com/sca/press/feb_25_99.html
> and http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/corpcomm/news/bandp/685.html
>
>         -mo



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