Idiots!

Idiots!

Posted Oct 10, 2003 0:09 UTC (Fri) by jre (guest, #2807)
Parent article: Student faces suit over key to CD locks (News.com)

So, SunComm figures their reputation will be best protected by suing a Princeton student for writing an academic article revealing how stunningly, mind-bogglingly feeble their "copy-protection" scheme is.

Mind you, this is a guy so scrupulous that he wouldn't even click to accept the EULA because it contained a boiler-plate prohibition against "reverse-engineer[ing]." On the law-abiding scale, John Halderman scores a 10 out of 10! How long do you figure it took those less exacting in their principles to spread the same information on the net, with or without John Halderman? Can we even measure a time interval that small?

So SunComm's various functional groups all think it is a lovely idea to sue a poor student (PR: "Brilliant, chief!) and probably lose (Legal: "You go!") to protect a secret lost 10 seconds after the first CD shrink-wrap was broken (Marketing: "Hey, they were laughing at us anyway.")?

Evidently, SunComm's technical and strategic staff went to the same school as the crafty cryptologists at SCO who thought transliterating into "Symbol" font is an unbreakable cipher.

And it wasn't Princeton.

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