Comments on: Microsoft fixes potential antipiracy hole

Japanese programmers spotlight flaw in Redmond's antipiracy protections, but the company moves to block the hack.

[Tex Murphy PI]

Amazing display of misplaced priorites

It's amazing how quickly Microsoft can patch a non-security related "flaw" in Media Player's DRM, and yet, take months to address known security flaws in their products!

I think Microsoft needs to understand that the purpose of the "Trustworthy Initiative" is to create trust for the reliability and security of their products with end users (customers who PAID for their products and expect them to work) - rather than paying attention to minor nuisances.

Nobody cares if a DRM gets hacked. People however, do care if an unpatched flaw is exploited , and causes billions of dollars of damage.

[Not Bugged]

Amazing display of ignorance about project development

People in corporations are arranged in groups that are each responsible for a product or a few products so it shouldn't be surprising at all when one group can quickly create a patch for their product while other groups take longer.

You also fail to account for the fact that some flaws are relatively simple and have solutions that as easy to create and implement while other flaws go deep into the entire design of the software product and may require rewriting a significant part of the product in question, not to mention the need to test that extensive fix to make sure it doesn't introduce new flaws.

[Ubber geek]

DRM gets hacked

http://www.analogstereo.com/mercedes_sl_class_owners_manual.htm

[cifs]

DRM on a PC, a non-runner

Because of the variety of sounds cards and MPEG-4 Video cards, Microsoft Windows provides for third party device drivers to talk to these cards. Since the cards have no encryption or rights management on them, the information sent to the drivers is raw and unencumbered. What is stopping someone, in theory, from writing a driver that makes a copy of the raw data?