Researcher: Vista prevents users playing high-def content
Posted on: 08/10/2007 03:50 PM
InfoWorld reports that computer researcher Peter Gutmann argued at the USENIX Security Symposium in Boston that content protection features in Windows Vista are preventing customers from playing high-def content
"If there was any threat modeling at all, it was really badly done," Gutmann, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, said while giving a talk on Vista content protection. "Once the enemy is the user and not the attacker, standard security thinking falls apart.
Researcher: Vista prevents users playing high-def content