[FYI] SWPAT- Can a Hacker Outfox Microsoft?

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,55807,00.html

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Can a Hacker Outfox Microsoft?  

By Pete Rojas 

Story location: 
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55807,00.html

02:00 AM Oct. 18, 2002 PDT

[...]

Eager to allay fears about the scope of Palladium, Biddle insisted 
that the impetus behind Palladium was solely to secure digital 
entertainment content and that he knew of no way that it could be 
used for the enforcement of software licensing. This assurance was 
made while he spoke on a panel at the USENIX Symposium.  

Skeptical that this was actually the case, fellow panelist Lucky 
Green quickly filed two patents soon after the conference. The 
patents described methods for using the Palladium infrastructure to 
assist in the enforcement of software licensing. Green has a third 
patent application on the way.  

The twist is that Green has no intention of implementing these 
techniques himself -- and in an interview with Wired News, declared 
his intention to "aggressively enforce his patents," if granted, to 
prevent anyone else from doing so.  

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