In early 2007, a highly controversial white paper published by security researcher Peter Gutmann caused a huge uproar within the PC industry. Peter’s paper explained how deep and pervasive – and how truly INVASIVE – the digital rights management technology which has been built into Windows new Vista product really is.

Leo and I have explored this topic at great length, so we’ll have a great time bringing it to the attention of the Leo’s Lab viewers.

SEGMENT OVERVIEW:

We will largely be discussing papers which are readily downloadable from various sites on the web. See the “Related website Link” (below) for the complete list…

RELATED WEBSITE LINKS:

The original paper by Peter Gutmann which started it all:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

Microsoft’s unofficial “official” blogged reply to Peter’s paper:
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive

/2007/01/20/windows-vista-content-protection-twenty-questions-and-answers.aspx

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