Posted on 02/01/2007 6:21:11 PM PST by Space Wrangler
A Romanian-born programmer claims to have developed code that can bypass the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology in Windows Vista. Writing in his blog, Alex Ionescu said that for over a year, he's been working on a method of getting around Vista's signed driver requirements and that he's recently succeeded.
As you might know, Vista requires that all drivers be digitally signed so that they can be properly authenticated to the OS. The 64-bit version of Vista requires what Microsoft calls Kernel Mode Code Signing (KMCS) in order to load kernel-mode drivers.
Vista also includes a technology called Protect Media Path (PMP), which essentially is a way to enable secure playback of "next-generation premium content," such as high-definition DVDs. The idea behind PMP is to prohibit access to unencrypted premium content to prevent the user from making copies that aren't approved by the content publisher. In order to facilitate trusted interoperability with premium content, any components placed into the PMP must be digitally signed for use with PMP.
Ionescu said that his code does not load any unsigned drivers and that he uses a special boot flag when starting Vista. He intends to release sample code that partially demonstrates his discoveries, but he won't release code that bypasses Vista DRM out of fear of being prosecuted under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
"Later this week I will release some safe, generic, proof of concept code that targets what I believe is a flaw in the Code Integrity/Driver Signing model.... Because this code will require an initial reboot [of the operating system] Microsoft does not consider it to be a flaw from a security standpoint. And because [the code I intend to release is] so generic, it has absolutely nothing to do with DRM or PMP. That being said, I'm sure someone with knowledge of the PMP implementation might be able to use this as a very smart building block of the entire code that would be required [to bypass PMP and DRM]," Ionescu wrote.
The free ones consisted of indie artists that no one has ever heard of before, and the popular music was available for sampling from that website only. Nice try though.
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Just showing you do have a choice. But just like Apple computers, if you want something premium there is usually a premium cost, which is the reward for excellence when paid back to the provider.
Obviously you won't be reading but in one room at a time unless you have multiple copies of the book.
I have no problem with paying a premium price for premium content. Once. Holding my premium content hostage, once I've paid the premium price is out of the question though.
I have a mental image of some mid-level Microsoft drone who gets off on "watching" other people watching porn.
Ultimately, the just solution is to punish infringement of fair-use prerogatives as severely as we punish infringement of copyright prerogatives. However, this requires removal of the current crop of coin-operated legislators.
So the Russian hackers that cracked OSX to run on cheap PC's were perfectly justified, so that those who simply paid for OSX could run it without actually paying for the Apple hardware? Even if they actually did own one Mac, they should be able to run it on as many cheap PC's as they have in their house?
Oh, I meet the requirements, but there are plenty of reasons NOT to get Vista NOW.
Do what ya want, I'm just telling you that MOST of what you have been reading about Vista is BS. It's Good.
LOL, alright my friend, fair enough.
Same here.
Ok, I have downloaded knoppix 5.1.1 and created a bootable image, and figured out how to set my screen resolution, but Im unsure as to how to set up Beryl, can you give an assist?
There is the problem with these power mad jerks, in a nutshell! 86 posted on 02/02/2007 8:37:25 AM CST by
On my laptop I am still running Windows2000 due to XP not playing well with a proprietary communication driver. XP runs on my desktop for AutoCAD, most office stuff. As far as the process simulation goes, that's the Mac. So the marketing of the Mac is towards graphics and art types, and libs. I have been using the Mac in its various forms for realtime modeling (mostly for control systems validation) since the early nineties. And the drivers are there for Allen Bradley, Modicon, Honeywell, Foxboro, you name it. Of course now OS-X is UNIX.
And I do have one platform that runs '95, and will never be upgraded. The big reason is its ability to run old DOS programs, which are used for programming some early (as in 1980's)PLC's. Big market for replacing these old control processors, yet I still have to be able to extract and print out the old program to configure a more up to date replacement (think replacing an old Westinghouse NumaLogics with a much more current Allen Bradley).
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