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Re:Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privac... by visarga on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @03:26AM (#8425664)
Protecting content from users is a failed game. This kind of protection is useless. At the very least, they need to decrypt information before it passed through our eyes and ears - that's the weak link in the chain.
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Re:Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privac... by joelanders on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:45AM (#8425916)
I think the weak link in the chain is only after decryption, but before uncompression (for lossy formats, so books excluded). See, for example, [1] and [2], where the authors look at randomness and entropy measures of I/O to find where the decrypted-but-compressed buffers are.

[1] http://moyix.blogspot.de/2014/07/breaking-spotify-drm-with-p...

[2] https://www.usenix.org/node/182951

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Re:Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privac... by walterbell on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:26AM (#8425843)
Useless or not, it could impact x86 operating systems and would benefit from developer feedback prior to shipment of microcode in new processors.

Oculus will make it more difficult to photograph the screen.

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