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1997-12-05 - Re: Superdistribution development/release

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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UTC Datetime: 1997-12-05 06:06:46 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:06:46 +0800

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From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:06:46 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Superdistribution development/release
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At 2:01 PM -0800 12/4/97, stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>Sounds likely - they're not only planning to run it on machines
>without vaguely secure hardware, they're planning to run it
>on machines without operating systems - they'll probably use Win95.
>With NT, you'd at least need to look for bugs or design flaws
>or other ways to lie to the operating system, since there _is_ one :-)
>95 may not be as fragile as Win3.1, but it's still no protection.

Note that, if the person who has the authority to modify the code of the
operating system wants to intercept the data, even a "real" OS can be
easily modified.  Since with personally owned systems, that person is the
owner, there is very little protection the OS can give to these kinds of
copyright enforcement systems.


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