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DRM for batteries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Jan 4 12:14:48 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:38:07 +1300
http://www.intersil.com/cda/deviceinfo/0,1477,ISL6296,0.html
At $1.40 each (at least in sub-1K quantities) you wonder whether it's costing
them more to add the DRM (spread over all battery sales) than any marginal
gain in preventing use of third-party batteries by a small subset of users.
Peter.
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