Re: Microsoft finally acknowledges the security drumbeats

From: spp@cs.berkeley.edu
Date: 02/14/02 

From: spp@cs.berkeley.edu
Date: 14 Feb 2002 01:39:52 GMT

Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:

>spp@cs.berkeley.edu wrote:

>> Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:

>>>By contrast, when I bought a DVD player [..] there was no seal
>>>on the device itself that I had to break in order to use it.

>> How long ago was this?

> 2-3 years. I don't remember exactly.

Right. It was two or three years ago that I heard they
planned to eventually plastic-wrap the things with a
license agreement.

Anyone know whether this ever actually happened?

Steve