In the news
I was quoted in the Wall Street Journal about Microsoft Rights Management Services (subscription required, but the text is available in the Cryptography mailing list archive)
An employee, for example, might be ordered to do something illegal in an e-mail that effectively self-destructs. "If the person doesn't do the thing, he can be fired," Mr. Schoen said. "If he wants to prove the boss had asked him to do something illegal, there is no record of it."
and in the L.A. Times I was quoted about the ARDG
Seth Schoen of the Electronic Frontier Federation, a group that advocates civil liberties online, said the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act puts the burden on Hollywood to protect its programs. But the studios' anti-piracy initiatives would shift the burden onto manufacturers so that "whenever you make anything technical, you have to go and ask them, 'How do I design this so that it protects your interests?'"
I saw Brian LaMacchia at the Berkeley DRM conference today and got to talk to him a little more about Microsoft RMS. I commended him on admitting the existence of attacks against Microsoft's DRM, something many other DRM vendors refuse to do. (Whenever I talk to a Microsoft technologist about a Microsoft DRM technology and propose an attack, the technologist always replies "Yup, that attack would work!"; do you know any other DRM vendor who'll react that way?)
