Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:11:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:11:07 -0500 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:63954 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:10:54 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [OT] DRM OS Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Lines: 22 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3C338600.B019EED9@sympatico.ca> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 1010056253 31727 212.34.181.4 (3 Jan 2002 11:10:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:10:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Warning: This article could contain indecent words in German and/or English. If you don't want to read such words, please use a Killfile. X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2002 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andre Hedrick writes: >http://www.lsilogic.com/techlib/marketing_docs/consumer/ACF394.pdf So this chip encrypts before storing data on a HD. Thats' fine with me, because there is no logic inside the drive involved. If the drive would contain the "encryption algorithms", so that I cannot run a "free" OS on it, then I would be concerned. What I really _do_ hate is the "Advertisment insertion" paragraph. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/