The W32/Blaster worm burst onto the Internet scene in August of 2003. By exploiting a buffer overflow in Windows, the worm was able to infect more than 1.4 million systems worldwide in less than a month. More diversity in the OS market would have limited the number of susceptible systems, thereby reducing the level of […]
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Risks of Digital Rights Management
Digital rights management (DRM) is an attempt to provide
"remote control" over digital content. The required
level of protection goes beyond secure delivery of the
bits?restrictions on the use of the content must be
maintained after it has been delivered. The buzzword for this
is "persistent protection."
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