Vulnerability Development: RE: Xbox (Was -Online Games Consoles and Security Implications)

["Robert Freeman" <freem100 () chapman edu>]

Sure the XBox is protected by the DMCA. However, there are six exemptions to the DMCA, which include encryption 
research and security testing. Security testing (section 1201j) requires permission whereas encryption research 
(section 1201g) apparently does not. The paper stays strictly related to encryption research, so I tend to think the 
author has fulfilled legal obligations. On a related note, the work is beyond the understanding of the general public, 
so I'd doubt MS will lift a finger. Now if somebody did something based on the paper...

RF

----- Original Message Deus 
Attonbitus: "Deus, HammerofGod" <com () HammerofGod com>

> XBox the XBox OS protected by DRM new DRM patent?  Meaning that any 
> security vulnerabilities could be used to enable copyright infringement; 
> the publication of which would be illegal DMCA the DMCA?
>
> It will be interesting to how MS responds to this.
>
> AD