Friday, August 31st, 2007 (
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Bruce Schneier caught this story of an
Austrailian kid who broke a $70 Million government supplied porn filter in under half an hour. The software was being given away free to schools, libraries and families.
Schneier says it best:

Remember that the issue isn't that one smart kid can circumvent the censorship software, it's that one smart kid -- maybe this one, maybe another one -- can write a piece of shareware that allows everyone to circumvent the censorship software.
It's the same with DRM; technical measures just aren't going to work.

Duh. Whoever sells DRM to big companies is a criminal. A very wealthy criminal.
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