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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
Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 3): This is the final installment in my series debunkingÂ Peter Gutmann'sÂ 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 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
peter gutmann turns to smear tactics with help from PCWorld NZ: Update 9/1/2007 - Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as sourceÂ Â 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 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: 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
Busting the FUD about Vista's DRM: Is it bad reporting, bad research, or something worse?That's the question I asked myself when I read this NetworkWorld account of Peter Gutmann's presentation at the Usenix Security Symposium last week. Gutmann is a researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland in New Zealand who...; Tags: Digital-rights Management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Video, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2007-08-20
Busting the FUD about Vista's DRM: Busting the FUD about Vista's DRMyou meanthe site that has as most read story:[b]Rove quits to spend more time with iPhone[/b]And 2nd best read[b]Nude publisher Perfect 10 sues Microsoft[/b];)Right from the begininng of his article"Executive SummaryWindows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Peter Gutmann, Microsoft Windows Vista, FUD, digital-rights management; Discussion threads 2007-08-14
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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Yahoo! frees the Monkey, and announces prizes for a Developer Challenge: In conversation with Yahoo! Research's Peter Mika last week, I jokingly suggested that Yahoo! Search's open developer platform, SearchMonkey, might open its doors to developers this week. Well, they just did, and went a step further by announcing a month-long Developer Challenge and prizes of up to $10,000 for innovative...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., Infobars, Search, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-15
UC Law bans classroom web access: I love having Internet access during my grad classes. I can get additional references for any information presented with a quick bit of Googling, I can examine alternate viewpoints, or I can look at last week's homework. Of course, I can also check my email, write a blog...; Tags: Web, Professor, Student, University Of Chicago Law School, Law School, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-14
A new take on 'Web 3.0' ?: Writing in today's Financial Times, Digital Business supplement editor Peter Whitehead offers a different interpretation on Web 3.0 to that which readers of this blog might be used... "Web 2.0 is a world in which anyone can have a go at generating content; Web 3.0...; Tags: Web, Web 3.0, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Photos: Microsoft previews 2008 Xbox games: Microsoft's Spring Showcase shows off some of its forthcoming 2008 title releases to journalists in San Francisco.Microsoft took over Dogpatch Studios in San Francisco for the Showcase event. The company set up stations around the studio to show off games like Too Human, Ninja Gaiden, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and...; Tags: Journalist, San Francisco, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Xbox, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-13
Microsoft vs. Google: Are all monopolies created equal?: Are Microsoft and Google really locked into a zero-sum game, where every gain in Google's search business translates into an automatic kick-in-the-pants for Microsoft? That seems to be the premise, to a degree, of a couple of new items -- one on the Financial Times and...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Monopoly, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-13
JavaOne '08: Inside enterprise 2.0: Oracle demos a new enterprise 2.0 application at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Oracle executives Thomas Kurian and Peter Moskowitz show how Java changes an order entry application into a collaborative Web 2.0 environment.; Tags: Oracle, Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, JavaOne; Videos 2008-05-08
Peter Mika offers bananas at Yahoo! Research: Yahoo! are certainly being a lot more open than competitors such as Google and Microsoft when it comes to talking about their use of semantic technologies. They've been active for several years in recruiting stalwarts of the Semantic Web community such as Dave Beckett, and there is a long tradition...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-08
How much are your friends worth?: News Corp. revealed yesterday that its new media subsidiary Fox Interactive Media FIM has missed this year's revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent. FIM's portfolio is dominated by MySpace which accounts for the majority of its revenue, bringing into question once again the ability to monetize the huge...; Tags: Advertisement, Google AdWords, News Corp., MySpace, Advertiser, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Monetizing social media: Still an uphill climb; Some friends may be worthless: News Corp. confirmed what had been reported for weeks: Fox Interactive revenue isn't going to hit its targets. The problem: Social networking is still very hard to monetize. Does inventory matter when you can't sell it? Peter Chernin, News Corp.'s operating chief, delivered his state of MySpace...; Tags: Social Media, MySpace, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-08
SynapSense gets a grip on your data center's environmental profile: I was invited by a local hosting provider to give a presentation last Friday about green data centers. As I was gathering the data to illustrate some of the trends I wanted to highlight, I was astonished to discover that very few companies apparently measure their server power consumption very...; Tags: Data Center, Server, Wireless, SynapSense, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-05-07