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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 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 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 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 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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- Snow Leopard: Why students shouldn't care less
- NonZealot, 1You've just gone up a notch in my books. Good comment!RE: Snow Leopard: Why students shouldn't care lessIt's obvious that you are happy with that old code clunker Windows that is held together with string and chewing gum so stick with it and have a good day.Apple digs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Snow Leopard, driver upgrade, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- Memory "bug" won't delay Windows 7
- Memory "bug" won't delay Windows 7One time? When it comes to negative Windows stories...[i]Sorry to disappoint, but this is one time when you shouldn?t believe everything you read on the internet![/i]It's usually safer to assume they're wrong until shown otherwise. Too much FUD about Windows on the Internet.Maybe yes, maybe...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, true info
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
- Eraser 5.8.7 (Windows)
- Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory and...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Pattern, Heidi Computers, Eraser, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-06-11
- SecuWipe for Pocket PC 1.0 (Mobile)
- Erase data from your Pocket PC. Wipe contacts, email, SMS, temporary files, browsing history, files and memory cards. The program employs different data sanitizing algorithms, including zero-filling, U.S. DoD 5220.22-M method, Bruce Schneier's algorithm, and Peter Gutmann's algorithm. Use wiping to eliminate traces of your everyday activity. Or if you...
- Tags: Algorithm, Mobile, Aiko Solutions, Pocket PC, Engineering, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- SecuWipe for Smartphone 1.0 (Mobile)
- Erase data from your Smartphone. Wipe contacts, email, SMS, temporary files, browsing history, files and memory cards. The program employs different data sanitizing algorithms, including zero-filling, U.S. DoD 5220.22-M method, Bruce Schneier's algorithm, and Peter Gutmann's algorithm. Use wiping to eliminate traces of your everyday activity. Or if you want...
- Tags: Algorithm, Mobile, Smartphone, Aiko Solutions, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- BCWipe 3.11.7 (Windows)
- BCWipe is an ultimate software product that allows you to delete any unwanted data from your hard drive: files, folders, records, private data, cookies, file slacks, content of the swap file, previously accessed pages on the Internet. Standard operating system's deletion procedures remove only a reference to a file from...
- Tags: Swap File, Microsoft Windows, Jetico, BCWipe, Standard Operating System
- Software downloads 2008-11-01
- Secure Eraser 2.2 SE (Windows)
- Applying five well-known and acknowledged deletion standards Secure Eraser deletes your sensitive data irretrievably - and offers an easy to use user interface. Additionally to overwriting sensitive files with random data Secure Eraser supports other acknowledged deletion standards such as US DoD 5220.22-M ECE, German standard and Peter Gutmann standard...
- Tags: ASCOMP Software, Microsoft Windows, Quality, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2008-09-02
- SecuWipe (Mobile)
- is data sanitizing wiping tool that completely removes sensitive data from your PDA by overwriting it in accordance with strong data sanitizing algorithms. It wipes all previously deleted data, confidential files and folders, contacts, email and SMS messages from your Pocket PC and its remobable media cards.The program employs different...
- Tags: Algorithm, Mobile, Removable Media, Engineering, Pocket PC, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Hardware, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-08-27
- Active Privacy Guardian Washer 1.58 (Windows)
- Safely wash your PC activities providing a faster, smoother, and error-free PC with more disk space. Includes 100's of washes for 8 browsers, 21 Windows system areas, unused disk space, MS Office, music and video players, cookies, chat and IM programs. Includes a utility to peek inside your files and...
- Tags: Disk, PC, Privacy, Paul Lowrance, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- MSDN+subscribers%3A+Vista+SP1+to+hit+by+the+end+of+this+week
- MSDN+subscribers%3A+Vista+SP1+to+hit+by+the+end+of+this+weekTechNet subscribers will probably get screwed...Because we had the guts to complain in public.JUST PUT OUT SP1 ALREADYI swear, is Microsoft trying to make me go up and slap them! Just put out SP1 now, and allow people to download a disk image with SP1 already installed on the disk.......
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), digital-rights management, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Corp., MSDN Subscriber
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
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