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CPRM is a bad idea
1:21:36 pm mst / 18 February 2001
found by paul / filed in security / source Cryptogram
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In this month's Cryptogram, Bruce Schneier argues that the proposed CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) is both a bad idea and will be ineffective.
Very clear analysis, as usual.
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Ridiculous waste of resources by MysteriousStranger
8:26:06 am mst / 19 February 2001 / # 1
Once again, industry will spend hundreds of millions of paranoid dollars that some 13 year old kid will find a way to defeat. Stupid...stupid...stupid.