more on Intel quietly embeds DRM in it's 945 chips firmware

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Someone at Intel needs to train their people djf


Begin forwarded message:

From: Chris Beck <cbeck () pacanukeha net>
Date: May 30, 2005 8:12:02 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net, David Wagner <daw () cs berkeley edu>, EEkid () aol com
Subject: Re: [IP] Intel quietly embeds DRM in it's 945 chips firmware


Rumour has it David Farber, on or about 30/05/2005 3:07 PM, whispered:

> However, Tucker ducked questions regarding technical details of how
> embedded DRM would work saying it was not in the interests of his
> company to spell out how the technology in the interests of security.

One imagines that the real reason is that he had no clue, wasn't  
expecting such
a technical question and spouted the first thing that came into his  
pointy
little head :)

cheers,
/c

--
Chris Beck  -  http://pacanukeha.blogspot.com
"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more
thieves and robbers there will be." -- Lao Tsu


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