[IP] more on FROM Intel REPLY Intel quietly embeds DRM in it's 945 chips firmware

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Chris Beck <cbeck@pacanukeha.net>
Date: May 31, 2005 10:19:29 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net, "Whiteside, Donald M"  
<donald.m.whiteside@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on FROM Intel REPLY Intel quietly embeds DRM  
in it's 945 chips firmware


Dear Dave, Donald,

Rumour has it David Farber, on or about 31/05/2005 8:05 PM, whispered:

> From: "Whiteside, Donald M" <donald.m.whiteside@intel.com>
> I don't want to get into a public debate with your ip audience.   
> DTCP-IP
> is broadly licensed.  YES, you do need to pay the license fee and sign
> the license to get access to certain parts of the spec; namely the
> crypto 'secrets'... standard practice in this space...

With all due respect Donald, it is comments like "standard practice  
in this
space" that really get people going.

I don't know if Bruce Schneier subscribes to this list but I'm sure  
he could go
on in great and interesting detail about exactly why security through  
obscurity
doesn't work and that the fact that it is standard practice in that  
space is
more of an insult than an excuse.  I think I can sum up the  
shortcomings of the
idea in one word (OK, one acronym :)

deCSS

Cheers,
Chris

PS - Donald, I am more than happy to not spam your inbox and leave  
replies
striclty to IP if that suits you better.
--
Chris Beck  -  http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com
understand, v: To reach a point, in your investigation of some subject,
at which you cease to examine what is really present, and operate on the
basis of your own internal model instead.


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