Re: Part 2: System Structure

[Michal Suchanek]

On 5/22/06, Tom Bachmann <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 16:45 +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote:
> >>> I do not believe so. The transparency of the bank is completely
> >>> orthogonal to whether the bank can be authenticated as a particular type
> >>> of bank.
> >>>
> >> Yes, of course. But if I have access to the programs memory, I can patch
> >> the test if(opaque_bank(my_bank)) go_on();else abort(); to if(true) ...
> >
> > As I understand matters, the current proposal is for *read* access, not
> > *write* access...
> >
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> I am not sure if we can speak about something like a "current proposal"
> (at least I can't see where it has been stated).
> But yes, this is only true for write access, of course.

And it's been indeed said that disallowing write access is already DRM
and it is unacceptable ..

Thanks

Michal