Wishing You Endless Vistas of Microsoft Joy in the New Year


"A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection"
by Peter Gutmann

<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt>

For your especial pleasure:

"Vista's content protection requires that devices (hardware and
software drivers) set so-called "tilt bits" if they detect anything
unusual. For example if there are unusual voltage fluctuations, maybe
some jitter on bus signals, a slightly funny return code from a
function call, a device register that doesn't contain quite the value
that was expected, or anything similar, a tilt bit gets set."



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