full-disclosure - [Fwd: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil]

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

From: ahulsebos at wolfpack.nl (Arjan Hulsebos)
Subject: [Fwd: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil]

> The sad part about this entire topic is the futility of attempting to copy
> protect in the first place. So they install some software and Mac and
> Win... then some Linux kiddie rips the CD and puts it on P2P and it's out
> now for the whole world. All it takes is one person to break it and it's
> all over. What a waste of resources trying to protect it.

Or even the mere fact that if I can play a "protected" CD on a device that
has a "line out", I can feed that into the sound card of my PC. Granted,
there's some loss there, but not a whole lot, I'd reckon.

Choosing the right [IOS] image is almost an NP-complete problem even with
feature navigator!
                                           -- Priscilla Oppenheimer
_______________________________
dr. Arjan Hulsebos
Security Engineer
Essent Kabelcom, @Home Benelux department
1042 AX Amsterdam
Email: arjanh@...p.home.nl
Tel:   +31 20 88 55 407
Mob:   +31 6 21 548 777