Lpc2000

At 10:43 PM 1/10/06 +0000, jayasooriah wrote:
>--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Robert Adsett <subscriptions@a...>
> > It is?  I missed that completely then.  BTW, if it wasn't obvious
> > I think banning research on security flaws is somewhere between
> > pointless and self-defeating.
>
>Agreed.  I do not believe there is any such ban in effect.  If there
>were, then there would not be umpteen textbooks and articles on these.
>
>Simply put, it is not unlawful to be a locksmith by profession.  It
>may be to break the prefessional code of conduct.

Nicely put.  I was referring to the DMCA (on which there has been many 
articles). Purely U.S. of course but I have heard rumors of some countries 
considering it as a template for their own laws.  I seem to recall that 
there was one well known security researcher that left the field because of 
it.  And several from outside the US have expressed concerns about 
attending conferences inside the US.

You can see

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/

to see some of the concern being expressed there.

>I would not be surprised if Philips is now frantically looking into
>CSI vulnerabilities as we speak.  It is quite obvious a freeze has
>been put on discussoin of these issues between the engineering and
>support teams within.
>
>Should further claims be made without reference to the issues raised,
>it may be quite possible to show "deceptive and misleading conduct"
>that is unlawful in most countries.

You may be right.

Keep up the gadfly work.  I think the back and forth here between you and 
your critics has resulted in a firmer foundation for your questions.

>Anyone who is has LPCs out in the field and relies on its CEP features
>for protection of IP or for security purposes should seek profesional
>opinion.
>
>However, for the rest of us who are just using 2105 as a platform for
>doing creative things and not concerned with CEP, there is nothing to
>stop us from continue to enjoy this part, and the trend it has set in
>terms of availability of cheap ARM cores.


They are rather nice.

Robert

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