Authored by: hardmath on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 09:35 AM EDT |
Maybe a little more aggressively pitched. You the Consumer
will never be able to control your device (and we M$ should
know), so plan on applying "information rights management"
to everything you do from now on.
Don't worry about how it works! It's one of those
sufficiently advanced technologies (indistinguishable from
magic, per Arthur C. Clarke). Of course this futuristic
goodness depends on you really believing ... and staying in
the M$ fold.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 12:34 PM EDT |
Who can see a document is easy enough to control with public key cryptography.
Restricting what they can then do with it and for how long falls into DRM
territory, where a decryption key is hidden somewhere in software on the user's
computer. If the vender DRM key is the prime cryptography used, a back door is
implicit.
Oh wait, this is supposed to run on an appliance where the user is forbidden
from reading certain software. <sarc>And it's not like an ethically
challenged organization like MacroShaft would abuse its position. </sarc>
It will still be cracked at some point if enough valuable data is locked in the
system.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 02:25 PM EDT |
Information management - already in place, don't need Microsoft for that.
If I don't want a document spread around, I don't put it on the web. I don't
store it in a cloud, especially not a Microsoft cloud, and I treat anything that
puts Microsoft and secure in the same sentence as an oxymoron and accord the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
Someone puts the incorrect date on an important company report or sales
contract, ummmm, I wonder how well that will go down when they find the document
404ed.
Tufty
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