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October 31, 2004

Bunch of photos from 2003

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October 30, 2004

Bunch of photos from 2004

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Why DRM will never work over an extended period of time



In short, tamper resistant hardware isn't.

And oh yah, like most security systems where the weakest link of the chain determines the over all level of success, well, the link between computers and humans is real hard to protect.

Somewhere there is a great rant about DRM. Effectively it says that DRM works like this. For people we want to read the content, we give theme the encrypted content and they keys. For people we don't want to read the content, we give them the encrypted content and, get this, the keys. Then we are surprised by the results.

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October 09, 2004

Nice view


I had to wait for their not to be a cleaning lady in the room to get this photo


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Long way to IETF

Naomi after rough day at IETF

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The mastermind behind IPv6


I took this picture in Taiwan - and let me tell you. Their IPv6 steering committee is way more pervasive that the folks where I work.

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Look Ma, No hands






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