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- Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ
- Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source  Peter Gutmann - the man who admittedly never used Vista and author of the widely cited and widely discredited paper "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" - has taken his fight in to...
- Tags: Problem, Blog, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC World, Slide, Gutmann, Peter Gutmann, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-01
- Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source
- Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as sourceWindows contributes to global climate change#courtesy of: cjm LTWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, computer hardware, fossil fuel, GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, hardware, Gutmann, global climate change
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- Gutmann Vista DRM paper uses shoddy Web Forums as source
- Computer scientist Peter Gutmann made a name for himself when he published his paper "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" and got worldwide attention for outlining some serious concerns about Windows Vista DRM mechanisms. But Peter Gutmann admittedly doesn't use Windows Vista and he's publicly asked for...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Media Player, Web, Windows Media, Digital-rights Management, WMV, Microsoft Windows Vista, Fact, Microsoft Windows, CPU, Peter Gutmann, AudioDG, WMP11, Media Foundation, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-09-01
- Gutmann: "I'm going to ignore" questions about Vista FUD
- Gutmann: "I'm going to ignore" questions about Vista FUDAll we want is proof that Gutmantested his hypothesis. Since others have tested them and since Gutmann has had six months to test them, Gutmann needs to make some public comments. I'm not saying that Gutmann was completely wrong, but...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Guttman, Gutmann
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Claim that Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked!
- Claim that Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked!George since when did you become a scientist ?Hopefully you have a Phd. or something so folks don't think you are full of it .Thank you!We need more people debunking these myths. Vista came with my laptop and I...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), CPU, digital-rights management, global warming, Gutmann, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Claim that Vista DRM causes full CPU load and global warming debunked!
- Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source Update 8/30/2007 - Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ Update 8/16/2007 - Gutmann retreats and refuses to provide slides or any data to support his theories Peter Gutmann...
- Tags: Theory, Digital-rights Management, Power Consumption, Utilization, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, CPU, Global Warming, Gutmann, HD, Peter Gutmann, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
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- EZ Wipe gives you the opportunity to permanently remove files from your system in the easiest possible way, being integrated in Windows Explorer when you right-click any files and folders. Using the most powerful standard wiping methods like Russian GOST, DOD 5220.22M, German VSITR, Pfitzner, Schneier and Gutmann, EZ Wipe...
- Tags: File, XCRYSoft, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
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- Vista SP1 hands-on: six trouble-free upgrades
- Vista SP1 hands-on: six trouble-free upgradesI for oneWill hold out on my gaming upgrade for windows 7 HAHA. Or just keep using my 360 and keep slowly migrate my PC to a media center rather than gaming.Grats on the savings and good luck.....Interesting point of viewI know I dont HATE...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-08
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- Definitively erase and destroy any Windows folder or file using low level overwrite and standard procedures such as US Department of Defense DOD 5220.22-M (5 overwrites ) or Gutmann (32 overwrites). With NShred you can eliminate confidential information and data from PC drives. Name, size, and contents of erased file...
- Tags: Hardware, U.S. Department Of Defense, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2007-12-27
- I never sent obscene emails to Peter Gutmann
- I never sent obscene emails to Peter GutmannWell, well, well ...... the other day I had an email trying to sell me viagra that looked like it had come from NASA ... I doubt it did. Also, I don't believe everything I read on Wikipedia.You shouldn't believe everything on...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Peter Gutmann, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-12-23
- Anti Tracks (exe)
- Anti Tracks securely erases your Internet tracks, computer activities, and history stored in hidden files on your computer. It supports Internet Explorer, AOL, Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera browsers. It also includes more than 110 free plug-ins that extend erasing features to support popular programs, such as Acrobat Reader, Kazaa, PowerDVD,...
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, U.S. Department Of Defense, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-10-23
- OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticize
- OLPC is the PC you can't ever criticizePlease, this is all about your bruised ego - Give it a break move on -NT!NTHaven't you learned yet?George I would have thought that you would have learned by now that certain subjects just cannot be criticised, OLPC, Apple, Peter Gutmann etc :)This...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, PC, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., Third World, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)Media business is growingand OF COURSE Microsoft want a piece of that pie.In recent news NBC left Apple's iTunes and have started their own service, heavily DRMed of course using Windows Media but with too restricted usage, so most of us...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Consumer electronics, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVR, Media Business, DVD, operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista, digital-rights management, digital video recorder, DVD player, Microsoft Windows, TiVo Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3)
- This is the final installment in my series debunking Peter Gutmann's widely read and undeservedly cited paper on Vista content protection. (If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, go read them before you dive into this conclusion.) Today, I want to deal head-on with one of the most...
- Tags: Paper, HDMI, PC, Digital-rights Management, Output, NVidia Corp., Codec, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., Hardware, 1080p, Peter Gutmann, HD, Laptop Magazine, DVI, D-CINEMA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)great post!I look forward to reading part 3, and hopefully seeing if Gutmann has the fortitude to actually acknowledge any of this.RE: Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)Eddie, Eddie, Eddie!!!You have waaaaaay too much time on your...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Vista DRM, Part 2, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 2)
- Windows Vista includes a new set of features that allow playback software to work with protected media. This DRM infrastructure is bitterly controversial, and it's given rise to an enormous amount of misinformation. No one has been more active or successful in spreading FUD and misinformation about this technology than...
- Tags: Protection, Dell Computer Corp., Media Center PC, PC, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, Reality, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Media Center PCs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1)
- Last month, I wrote about the FUD surrounding Windows Vista and DRM. The FUDmaster is Peter Gutmann, a New Zealand researcher who wrote a paper last December that made a series of outrageous and inflammatory claims about Windows Vista. Since then, Gutmann has expanded the paper to more than four...
- Tags: Monitor, Digital-rights Management, Driver, Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Corp., FUDmaster, Peter Gutmann, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-09-16
- Storm Worm botnet could be world's most powerful supercomputer
- Storm Worm botnet could be world's most powerful supercomputerSince we've known of this problem for so long..why is internet end point security left up to the general public? With all of the government back initiatives, why not initiate one that will strip these trojans out at the ISP or or...
- Tags: Internet, powerful supercomputer, Storm Worm, supercomputer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Gutmann: "I'm going to ignore" questions about Vista FUD
- If you're waiting for Peter Gutmann to reply to my questions or those of my ZDNet colleague George Ou about his confusing, contradictory, and inflammatory Windows Vista "research," I've got some bad news. A note posted by the New Zealand encryption researcher sometime in the last 24 hours (it wasn't...
- Tags: Irony, Word, Note, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ
- Peter Gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZAbsolutelyAlthough I notice that your post is now on Keall's blog, albeit with an addendum initialed CK, presumably Chris Keall, criticising your description of O’Neill's original article.I have to admit I would have expected some sort of apology/notice of correction...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, Chris Keall, font, Peter Gutmann, attack, PC World
- Discussion threads 2007-08-30
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