I'm hard pressed to imagine what privacy without DRM looks like. Perhaps somebody can describe a non-DRM privacy management system. On the other hand, I easily can imagine how I'd use DRM technology to manage my privacy.
Oh please, this is absurd. How hard is it to violate my privacy? How much good does DRM do here? If you can't plug the analog hole for something as data-intensive as a DVD, how do you plug the analog hole for something as trivial as a social security number? I have to assume that what you're saying is that I will somehow use DRM to secure information that I give to a company with whom I want to do business. But this is unlikely ever to happen in any meaningful way - in order for this to work, the company with whom I am doing business has to have some incentive to implement DRM. The incentive can't be that I refuse to do business with them if they don't, because most people *do not* refuse to do business with companies that violate their privacy. Indeed, in many cases, we have no choice - if you want water, you sign up with the water department. If you want power, you sign up with the power company. There's no market there - these are monopolies. There's no opportunity for market leverage to impose DRM on them, even if the average person cared enough to make that happen, which they don't. I know this will come as a terrible blow to those who are morally against government coercion, and prefer the subtle coercion of the market, but if you want privacy, there's gotta be a law. And at that point, DRM for your personal information becomes something that I suspect is too expensive to be worth it. Do you keep all your money in a safe, or is some of it in a bank, or in a wallet, or in your dresser drawer? Why don't you keep all of it in a safe? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com