Month: January 2006
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CGMS-A + VEIL = SDMI ?
I wrote last week about the Analog Hole Bill, which would require almost all devices that handle analog video signals to implement a particular anti-copying scheme called CGMS-A + VEIL. Today I want to talk about how that scheme works, and what we can learn from its design. CGMS-A + VEIL is, not surprisingly, a…
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The Professional Device Hole
Any American parent with kids of a certain age knows Louis Sachar’s novel Holes, and the movie made from it. It’s set somewhere in the Texas desert, at a boot camp for troublemaking kids. The kids are forced to work all day in the scorching sun, digging holes in the rock-hard ground then re-filling them.…
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Predictions for 2006
Each January, I have offered predictions for the upcoming year. This year, Alex and I put our heads together to come up with a single list of predictions. Having doubled the number of bloggers making predictions, we seem to have doubled the number of predictions, too. Each prediction is supported by at least one of…
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2005 Predictions Scorecard
Last January, I offered predictions for 2005. It’s time now to review those predictions, to see how I did. (1) DRM technology, especially on PCs, will be seen increasingly as a security and privacy risk to end users. The SonyBMG fiasco fulfilled this prediction. Verdict: Right. (2) Vonage and other leading VoIP vendors will start…