[IP] DHS on DRM
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Alexander R. Cohen" <arc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 11, 2005 2:54:13 PM EST
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>, David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: DHS on DRM
Brian Krebs of The Washington Post blogs:
"Stewart Baker, recently appointed by President Bush as the
Department of Homeland Security's assistant secretary for policy,
made a comment that suggested that some anti-piracy efforts
introduced by the industry could have profound and unexpected effects
on the security of the nation's critical infrastructures. . . .
"'I wanted to raise one point of caution as we go forward, because we
are also responsible for maintaining the security of the information
infrastructure of the United States and making sure peoples' [and]
businesses' computers are secure. ... There's been a lot of publicity
recently about tactics used in pursuing protection for music and DVD
CDs in which questions have been raised about whether the protection
measures install hidden files on peoples' computers that even the
system administrators can’t find.' . . .
"'It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual
property -- it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection
of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine
the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.'"
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/11/the_bush_admini.html
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