Superdistribution development/release

[Bill Frantz]

At 2:01 PM -0800 12/4/97, stewarts at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>Sounds likely - they're not only planning to run it on machines
>without vaguely secure hardware, they're planning to run it
>on machines without operating systems - they'll probably use Win95.
>With NT, you'd at least need to look for bugs or design flaws
>or other ways to lie to the operating system, since there _is_ one :-)
>95 may not be as fragile as Win3.1, but it's still no protection.

Note that, if the person who has the authority to modify the code of the
operating system wants to intercept the data, even a "real" OS can be
easily modified.  Since with personally owned systems, that person is the
owner, there is very little protection the OS can give to these kinds of
copyright enforcement systems.


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