[Cdn-DMCA] A couple of technical points

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002 mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:

> Current scientific knowledge indicates that under a few limited
> circumstances, some software can maintain a kind of security even when
> disassembled, debugged, etc.  However, in the general case you're right
> that all security systems will fall to that kind of analysis.

  I think an important detail got lost:

  If a "program" has all sufficient information to access some data, then 
a programmer who has control over that computer also has sufficient 
information.


  Situations where the software or data requires a key can be made fairly
secure without access to the key, but as soon as an unknowing user types
in that key (or provides additional information in some other way) a
person controlling the computer (recording keyboard input, etc) then has
all sufficient information to access that secured information.


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