Re: "Enclosed shops" Re: HTML5 and DRM - A Middle Path?

On Aug 20, 2013, at 5:11 , Rick <graham.rick@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:25 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 19, 2013, at 12:32 , Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch> wrote:
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> > (1) People who are non-US persons must, if they want to deny the NSA
> >    the ability to watch what they're doing online (without the NSA
> >    having any need for a warrant, and without any other democratic
> >    checks and balances), avoid using an operating system which is
> >    closed source software that comes from a US company.
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> I don't think (I don't know, of course) that the NSA relied on any 'probes' or the like in the client computers.  Why bother, when you can watch their traffic, much more easily, by having probes in important high-traffic internet links?  I certainly don't think that any monitoring software on the client side, if it existed at all, would rely on any DRM or the like.  Again, why bother?
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> I think you are under a dangerous illusion if you think using only free software on your computer makes you immune from, or even at reduced risk from, being monitored.
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> No one thinks that.
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> No one said that.
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I'm sorry, then I misunderstood, and I still don't understand what the relationship is between EME, and the problem of the extent you can be monitored/tracked online.

> It seems that if you live in the US, you can get a "Security Letter" that you must comply with and discuss with no one or you spend 5 years in jail.  Do not pass go, do not collect $200.00

And the relevance to this EME discussion is…?


David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Tuesday, 20 August 2013 16:46:35 UTC