Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2003 19:40:44 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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Scott McDermott wrote:
>> They only leaked information when you edited documents while running >> the word processor on a toy OS that didn't zero newly allocated >> memory... > > um pardon, but does your libc zero newly allocated memory?
I don't know about libc, but my kernels do. All of them...
> and why should it, praytell? force a performance hit on everyone, when > it could just be left to the application to do it?
It is a security requirement. Applications cannot be trusted.
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