Security and Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems try to protect copyrights and digital contents by limiting access by users to contents. They provide facilities for electronic publishers to distribute their precious contents to prevent any illegal distribution and usage. In this article we\'re about to analyze features, weaknesses and restrictions about ...

The use of debuggers to analyse malicious or otherwise unknown binaries has become a requirement for reverse engineering executables to help determine their purpose. While researchers in places such as anti-virus laboratories have always done this, with the availability of free and easy to use debuggers it has also become popular with corporate security ...

A lot of people have been waiting months for this day, when sometime in the 9′ clock hour, Beta 2 of Version 2 was released! This groundbreaking release for DPM has so much to offer which hasn’t been previously announced. If you ever thought about DPM and maybe weren’t as ...

A court in Finland ruled last week that it is not a violation of that nation’s anticircumvention law to circumvent CSS, the copy protection system in DVDs. Mikko Valimaki, one of the defense lawyers, has the best explanation I’ve seen. Finnish law bans the circumvention of “effective” DRM (copy protection) ...

On Saturday I gave a talk (”Rip, Mix, Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the Fight to Control Digital Media”) for a Princeton alumni group in Seattle. The theme of the talk is that the rise of information technology is causing a “great earthquake” in media businesses. Many ...

[Other posts in this series] We predicted in past posts that AACS, the encryption system intended to protect HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies, would suffer a gradual meltdown from its inability to respond quickly enough to attacks. Like most DRM, AACS depends on the secrecy of encryption keys built into hardware ...

Four years ago I wrote about a company called Music Public Broadcasting: In today’s Los Angeles Times, Jon Healey writes about a new DRM proposal from a company called Music Public Broadcasting. The company’s claims, which are not substantiated in the story, give off a distinct aroma of snake oil. I went ...

People have had lots of objections to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — centering mainly on its clumsiness and the futility of its anti-infringement rationale — but until recently nobody had complained that the term “Digital Rights Management” was insufficiently Orwellian. That changed on Tuesday, when HBO’s Chief Technology Officer, Bob ...