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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT |
First, you are dead correct about the "hardware hole":
Anything with access to the startup sequence of a computer, and write access to
the storage media, will be able to over-write the locking code. That is, insert
CD, boot, and the lock is DONE..... Hey, if your Windoze is seriously
compromised, that's about the *only* way to work...unless you transport your
hard drive to another machine that didn't boot off it...
In some sense, what I am proposing/thinking about is a "Virtual
Machine" environment, an extension of VMware or your favorite virtual box
-- a very special chroot jail.
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Still, the question for me, and it is very real, goes like this:
It's gonna take non-trivial resources to come up with this lock. The lock
itself will be a concept reduced to practice by a software implementation, with
easy duplication -- just copy the CD!
How am I supposed to get paid for my efforts, which (in at least MY very
partisan view) will be of great benefit to many, in stopping this
"virus" madness?
Copyright isn't going to do it...a patent seems the right way.
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For another concrete version of this problem, consider the design of the Lotus
123 spreadsheet. Mitch Kapor did considerable original, inventive research to
make that user interface, which was clearly new, useful, and nonobvious at the
time, to the point where Lotus put competitor Visicalc out of business in a
year. What legal monopoly (if any) should have been granted, had it been timely
applied for?
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