Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM [LWN.net]

Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM

Posted Feb 7, 2016 5:03 UTC (Sun) by toyotabedzrock (guest, #88005)
Parent article: Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM

Certain open source projects, the kernel included, have made steps towards enabling DRM.

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Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM

Posted Feb 8, 2016 20:10 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (4 responses)

What has the kernel done? Are you referring to support for SecureBoot? Something else?

Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM

Posted Feb 9, 2016 1:45 UTC (Tue) by eternaleye (guest, #67051) [Link] (3 responses)

The example they have in mind is likely the Secure Memory Allocation Framework[1][2]

Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM

Posted Feb 9, 2016 14:16 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

Virtualization would get around this fairly easily I would think. Anyways, I wouldn't mind it for storage of GPG, SSH, SSL, KBDX keys and passphrases while other things were being manipulated (or even the content being encrypted in some cases).

Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM

Posted Feb 9, 2016 22:13 UTC (Tue) by lsl (subscriber, #86508) [Link] (1 responses)

You do know how the systems most likely to employ this are going to end up, don't you? There'll be lots of fancy crypto stuff to "secure" stupid TV shows while the user's actual private data is up for grabs, probably with some crappy vendor software (or its included ad library) uploading it to random internet hosts over unencrypted/unauthenticated HTTP.

Cory Doctorow on the game plan to crush DRM

Posted Feb 14, 2016 17:12 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

This is a problem with the DMCA, not the technology. The data leakage is a problem with penalties being (not even) a slap on the wrist.