Re: Microsoft rights management server alternatives

From: Jimi Thompson (jimi.thompson_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/20/04

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    Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:23:02 -0600
To: "Thompson, Tichard" <tichard.thompson@pharma.com>

    The DRM stuff is all a seriously bad joke that's been played out on
    management. You still have to TRUST the people that work there. If I
    can display it on my screen, no matter what else fails I can get my
    nifty camera and take a photograph of the document or whatever I'm not
    supposed to be able to pass around. If I can play it through my
    speakers or headphones, I can whip out my trusty old casette recorder
    and tape it. Where's your DRM then? Neither of these are
    particularly high-tech approaches and are well within the reach of the
    average schmoe.

    Further more, if I have sufficient rights to open a document, let say
    that I copy and paste from the contents of your DRM document into a
    new document. How do you track the rights to that? It's better to
    be loyal to your employees so that they are loyal to the company and
    don't want to sell you out to begin with. More software isn't going
    to fix that.

    2 cents,

      

    On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:06:11 -0500, Thompson, Tichard
    <tichard.thompson@pharma.com> wrote:
    > Checkout LiquidMachines which is a stand alone product and also
    > works with an existing RMS infrastructure. Also look at Authentica.
    > Their solutions are a lot better as well as being a lot more expensive.
    >
    > T.J CISSP
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Lists [mailto:sakaba@alexandria.cc]
    > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:30 PM
    > To: <focus-ms@securityfocus.com> <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
    > Subject: Microsoft rights management server alternatives
    >
    > Hi everyone,
    >
    > I am looking into rolling out a solution like microsoft rights server
    > that can encrypt files and assign decrypt rights. I know of Hibun in
    > Japan as well by Hitachi and was wondering if anyone was using anything
    > else.
    >
    > Regards,
    > sakaba
    >
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Thanks,
Jimi
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