evolution in action (Re: Napster)

[Ben Laurie]

Graham wrote:
> On Friday 06 Sep 2002 11:09 am, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> 
>>Note, though, that TCPA doesn't currently include protected I/O
>>space, so is trivially vulnerable to hardware based attacks on DRM.
> 
> 
> Now THAT's interesting; I hadn't realised that......

Its one of the crucial differences between Palladium and TCPA. The other 
interesting one is when they kick in - Palladium fires up after the OS 
is booted, whereas TCPA momitors the whole boot process.

I imagine this is purely so MS don't have to pay royalties to Bill Arbaugh.

Cheers,

Ben.

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