The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.
-- Peter Gutmann
I just got around to reading Peter Gutmann's analysis of the Windows Vista Content Protection specification. And I'm boggled. Even when pushed by the paranoid and deluded content industry (read: the MPAA and RIAA), I have a hard time believing even Microsoft, after all the dumb things it's done, could be this stupid.
If there's anything that might choke the great mass of uneducated users enough to make them turn around en masse and tell Microsoft to shove it where the sun don't shine, this may be it, once the word starts getting out that all these mysterious failures and performance problems they're now having aren't bugs -- Vista is SUPPOSED to work that way....