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The article is a bizarre read and I get the same impression of mixed agendas. The question will be every time we see one of these: is it valid? Over what? DRM: I was just browsing through the Wrox Professional Web Services book (noting a few folks from this list who are authors) and it has a decent overview of the security approaches to web services. Nothing looked terribly new to me so I have to wonder just what aspects of Digital Rights Management InterTrust holds a patent for, that is, what essential claims they have. Does DRM cover all aspects of security or is it yetAnotherSig in the content? len -----Original Message----- From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22404.html The disinformation there bothers me: alleging that systems should be "open except as required for security". That's more typically called "security through obscurity", and is widely known to be a flawed approach to security. In fact, since patenting requires open disclosure, it's clear that there are other agendas getting marketed there. The issue is more likely Freedom vs Control, rather than Openness vs Security. Of course as soon as anyone can be seen to be arguing that media industries don't have enough control, non-technical issues justly come back to the forefront ... :) > Is DRM a low-level technology (I would think so) > or is it high level? Yes to both. It's not one technology so much as a framework, with both low level (secure key storage) and high level (UIs in the broadest senses, access control policy) components. - Dave
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