| > For various economic reasons in screw manufacturing, this is highly unlikely to ever exist. Did pentalobe screws even exist before Apple started using them? They certainly didn't have a large installed base of manufacturing capacity. > Either your DRM system has to have special screws that only that particular device uses But isn't that the core of the issue? You have your special screws for your DRM system. Bob comes along and starts using them on his bicycles to try to force people to have them repaired at the dealer. Can Alice sell special screw drivers? If not, what happened to "that only that particular device uses"? If so, anyone can distribute circumvention tools as soon as a third party uses the same DRM system for something else. And do you see what I mean by First Amendment issues? We're having a policy discussion, the core of protected speech, and yet: > I'm pretty sure just mentioning this is committing one of my three felonies for the day. How do you have a discussion about the effectiveness of a censorship law if describing the facts of its application is illegal? Suppose the security vendor of the ransomware decryptor wants to make customers aware of its potentially precarious legal status, and then has to explain why. |