Microsoft's DRM makes your computer vulnerable to attack

[Dr. C]

This is not your typical Microsoft Windows vulnerability because in countries with DMCA style anti circumvention legislation interfering with the DRM in order to secure your computer may be against the law. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/24/microsofts-drm-makes.html. This is similar to the situation with the infamous Sony rootkit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal) back in 2005.

One must give thanks for Ubuntu and the GPL v3.

[Merk42]

This is not your typical Microsoft Windows vulnerability because in countries with DMCA style anti circumvention legislation interfering with the DRM in order to secure your computer may be against the law. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/24/microsofts-drm-makes.html. This is similar to the situation with the infamous Sony rootkit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal) back in 2005.

One must give thanks for Ubuntu and the GPL v3.
Right because there are never vulnerabilities in GPL code. OH WAIT

[earthpigg]

Right because there are never vulnerabilities in GPL code. OH WAIT

a major point of the OP, i think, was that


in countries with DMCA style anti circumvention legislation interfering with the DRM in order to secure your computer may be against the law.

[pwnst*r]

Right because there are never vulnerabilities in GPL code. OH WAIT

Lies...LIES I SAY!!!11

[inobe]

ironic isn't it when we try and determine what is worse, the drm or vulnerabilities that accompany it, considering drm already being an attack.

[Windows Nerd]

Lies...LIES I SAY!!!11

I think his point by the last sentence is that GPL'd code would make fixing the problem a hell of a lot easier.

[Lucradia]

I think his point by the last sentence is that GPL'd code would make fixing the problem a hell of a lot easier.

So would MIT, BSD, *mumbles more*