[IWE] 'A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection'
Ashton Brown
iwe@warhead.org.uk
Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:13:06 -0800
From the sublime (Sierra (kitty) got a tick removed) on down to the
techno absurd - - a blatant Screw You, Worldwide! getting loaded on to
shiny new toys, by the millions -- to further scramble the brains of the
feckless masses and likely torpedo many thousands of small/med
businesses who Know Not what they Do.
Not just a shellacked-turd, but a Nuclear turd?
This Vista Trojan Horse gets curiouser n'curiouser. Reading this stuff
is almost deja vu - the Simpson Trial.
Ugly, but surreal enough to keep watching: It isn't just about their
traditional nefarious mediocrity, this time.
Jeez guys - did you ponder what mental defectives you'd be dealing with
forever? when once you thought ~
"hmmm.. IT. Way-Cool - OK, I'm in."
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
What's the street cred of Peter Gutmann of nz?
His name + bio gets 87K hits and WikiP does not impute nutter status
(even if some here will find tainted: a one who discussed Anything with
Steve Gibson, as recently as 1/11/7.) er,8^D
Probably I'm just the last to see it.
Once you turn over this Vista rock <d simile/dt>
it's like peeling an onion.. <dē/dt>
gold-plating an already shellacked turd..
drinking the carbolic acid when you thought you bought carbonic.
Fascinating.. how deep into lunacy a monopoly can instantly go; no
checks/balances ever - "computer Science??" My Ass.
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Is Anyone Out There (with Power, legislative moxie) paying the slightest
Attention to these Implications -- Yet?
["Protests about Vista DRM" gets 872K hits. OK, there's one gauge block]
Are some noticing parallels; the same manic Neoconmen blinkers, now
aimed towards --> recreating another Baghdad: of the Web?
All you need is an ability to count! to ponder the number of processes
running - even at idle, many every 30mSec! - not ONE of which is there
to assist the user; present merely to Disconnect or Sabotage.The idea is
megalo comic-book material.. the implementation?? - utter madness.
Detune, fuzz-up Everything IF.. some Redmond-Certified OK is not
received in timely fashion -??- it is (should be) To Laugh.
All the recursion jokes finally become code rather than gag?
Mark Russinovich - donating his talents to THIS fascist scheme too(?)
Like say, Klaus Fuchs?
It appears that this atrocity really Does need to be opposed, 'stopped'
- on as many levels as imaginitive folks can manage.
Mayhap the world would have been spared the invasion of this necrotic
Corp -- simply, if someone had spiked the 'campus' water supply
early-on, with some good Owsley acid. Acid + autistics ... gots no data
on That.
Oh - G's screed was linked amidst Radsoft's "29 Days of Reasons" to
eschew VistaBeastware..
This One-of-29:
http://radsoft.net/news/roundups/29/24.shtml
Alas, the unwashed cannot grok even a smidgeon of the intertwined
malfeasance described - their VCRS flash 88:88:88 perpetually.
Guess there is no Irony for the Ignorant. (If zIWE were ported to
Beastware, could you even say/type/print 'Beastware', kameraden?)
Oh - and:
Y.P.B. :-/
Enough of the trivial -
I Puritani is on PBS Sunday :-)