Re: Microsoft rights management server alternatives

From: Glenn S. (glennsch_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 11/22/04

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    To: "Jimi Thompson" <jimi.thompson@gmail.com>, "Thompson, Tichard" <tichard.thompson@pharma.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:35:53 -0500

    The Microsoft DRM can prohibit someone from copying, pasting, forwarding,
    printing etc... the contents. You are right in that you have to trust the
    people. It may only keep the honest folks honest but that is still a step in
    the right direction and if someone takes time to carry their laptop to a
    copier to get a copy or if they take a snapshot with the camera built-in to
    their phone then they have clearly crossed the line when a message states
    something like: "DO NOT FORWARD. Recipients can read this message but may
    not forward, print or copy content." It becomes much harder to say, "I made
    a mistake." That allows your acceptable use or personnel policy to kick in
    and fire the employee.

    Glenn
    Security Solutions Specialist
    Microsoft.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Jimi Thompson" <jimi.thompson@gmail.com>
    To: "Thompson, Tichard" <tichard.thompson@pharma.com>
    Cc: "Lists" <sakaba@alexandria.cc>; <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
    Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 1:23 AM
    Subject: Re: Microsoft rights management server alternatives

    > 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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