Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!]

Chuck Ebbert
2003-05-01T23:30:58Z

Scott McDermott wrote:

>> They only leaked information when you edited documents while running
>> the word processor on a toy OS that didn't zero newly allocated
>> memory...
>
> um pardon, but does your libc zero newly allocated memory?

I don't know about libc, but my kernels do. All of them...

> and why should it, praytell? force a performance hit on everyone, when
> it could just be left to the application to do it?

It is a security requirement. Applications cannot be trusted.

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Chuck