A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

[PartisanEntity]

A very interesting read about Windows Vista content protection, quite shocking really:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

[rai4shu2]

Overall, Vista's content-protection functionality seems like an astonishingly short-sighted piece of engineering, concentrating entirely on content protection with no consideration given to the enormous repercussions of the measures employed.

He forgot the obvious part where Microsoft execs will need to be very convincing when they pretend to be shocked about it when hackers hack said protections. :D