[GetReady] Analysis of Microsoft's Suicide Note (part 1)

[BadVista.org Campaign News]

We've just published the first in a series of posts by Oliver Day about the
restrictions imposed by Microsoft's "content protection" scheme in Vista.

Oliver is a former corporate hacker turned student. While at eEye Digital
Security he wrote audits for the Retina Vulnerability Scanner and was a
Principal Security Consultant for @stake. He has written an unpublished book on
SAN security and found a variety of exploits in web-based applications.

He writes:

  "It will be interesting to see how these restrictions will be spun by the large
  marketing and PR teams since none of these innovations will benefit consumers
  in any way. The job that has been handed to these PR and marketing teams is to
  dress up a product designed with every restriction a producer has asked for and
  make a consumer want to buy it."

You can read the rest of the article at
http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/analysis-of-microsofts-suicide-note-part-1.

And please digg it at
http://www.digg.com/software/BadVista_org_Analysis_of_Microsoft_s_Suicide_Note,
to help get the word out!

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