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Re: copy protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Holovacs)
Mon Dec 25 12:18:47 2000
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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 09:16:33 -0500
To: Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de, Lenny Foner <foner@media.mit.edu>
From: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
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At 01:23 AM 12/25/2000 +0100, Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
>Don't tell me I can't find a crypto-free mass storage
>vendor.
I expect the approach will make the software refuse to install on
noncompliant disks. They already have extensive equipment requirements,
adding compliant disks to the list (especially when virtually all machines
are shipping with them) is trivial.
The only protection from this is user revolt. Hopefully it will occur.
jay
