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Security Research (Was: Scarfo "keylogger", PGP )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Oct 17 00:21:08 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com, schneier@counterpane.com,
"'Peter Fairbrother'" <peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com>
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:52:48 -0400
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In message <3BCC7231.2F3CA52D@algroup.co.uk>, Ben Laurie writes:
>"Trei, Peter" wrote:
>> Windows XP at least checks for drivers not signed by MS, but
>> whose security this promotes is an open question.
>
>Errr ... surely this promotes MS's bottom line and no-one's security? It
>is also a major pain if you happen to want to write a device driver, of
>course.
>
Microsoft? See their view of how to deal with security at
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171173.html -- I wonder if they
think it should apply to crypto research, too?
Of course, why should I be surprised at this? Some crypto research is
already banned by the DMCA; why not ban even more?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
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