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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:39:55 -0600
From: Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor Southeast Design Center
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CC: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Subject: Re: new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...
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Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >From siliconvalley.com's GMSV column today:
>    self-destruct if it's tampered with.  The utility is enabled
>    with 11 layers of security defenses, all of which must be
>    successfully navigated to disable the system.  These layers
>    range from a series of forced reboots designed to thwart
>    automated hacking tools to something called "the white screen
>    of death" which destroys the software and all files stored
>    inside it.  Infraworks CEO George Friedman says the
>    application's system-level control is possible largely because
>    it is firmly anchored into users' C drives during
>    installation.  "We're fairly deep in the operating system,"

Not much help if you put the disk in another box without their
system installed (or mount in linux/BSD/MacOS) to break the
encryption/controls. Once that's done, A floppy based OS
and tool could break open the files on a disk, when their
apps aren't running.

If it can be decrypted "legally" it can
be done "illegally" too.

	-Thomas
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