[ EEPI-Discuss ] Re: One Week to Shattered Security: Lessons from the Sony PSP Exploit Saga

["Posten, Samuel" <Samuel.Posten@ilex.com>]

What everyone seems to be missing in all this hoopla is that the same
restrictions are working quite well for other platforms, specifically the
original Xbox.  There is still no software only work around to the lockdown
they provide and the hardware solution requires a complicated and not
inexpensive 'chipping' to be permanantly installed.

As far as I know, Circuit City's failed DIVX platform was never in danger of
being cracked either while it was alive.

For the PSP it all seems to come back to the same reason I hear for
Macrovision and other easily defeatable protections:  'If we didnt put these
kinds of locks in place we would have no standing as far as trademark and
piracy issues'.  So on one hand you have guys who give these issues lip
service(Macrovision, PSP) versus those guys who really seem to mean it
(Microsoft)...

Sam

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[mailto:eepi-discuss-bounces+samuel.posten=ilex.com@eepi.org]On Behalf
Of Craig A. Finseth
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 11:48 AM
To: lauren@vortex.com
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Subject: [ EEPI-Discuss ] Re: One Week to Shattered Security: Lessons
from the Sony PSP Exploit Saga


	...
   So it seems that an experienced company, with full control over
   the hardware and no backwards compatability problems to deal with,
   still can't create a platform for securely controlling the use and
   distribution of digital information.

   What does this say about the hopes of the "secure computing" initiatives
   for PCs?
	...

About what one would expect.

There's another historical example.  The original specifications for
Windows NT are almost exactly the same as for the still-to-come future
Microsoft platform.

AND THESE SPECS WERE IMPLEMENTED!

The problem was that the real world did not want a secure platform:
they don't solve the general real world problems.

Since the world hasn't changed that much, why should anyone expect
this entire approach to work?

Craig

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