Archive for January, 2007

Debate on Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Well, I’m using the term “debate” loosely here because it seems to me, given the marshalled evidence, there isn’t much of a debate to be had, but in any case, Microsoft has responded to Peter Gutmann’s cost analysis of the DRM subsystems in Windows Vista (of which I’d written about earlier), and also in system […]

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Firefox extension for XRI - FoXRI

Friday, January 5th, 2007

William Tan, aka =wil, aka dready, has taken his Firefox XRI extension — FoXRI — and made it a SourceForge project! Here’s relevant links…

FoXRI Installation & Information Page
http://foxri.sourceforge.net/
FoXRI SourceForge Project Page
http://sourceforge.net/projects/foxri/

This extension enables Firefox to process XRIs entered directly into the Location bar. Try it out, it’s very cool. And join the project if you […]

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