Re: Confinement (even with TPMs) and DRM are not mutually exclusive

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:13 -0400, Eric Northup wrote:
> There are situations where programs want to know that they have a
> *mostly* private communication channel to an output device.  For
> example, a spreadsheet which stores patient information in a medical
> practice must be careful that random applications don't take
> screenshots or steal their clipboard contents.  Also, password entry
> dialog boxes, etc.  But these applications do not want to prohibit the
> *user* (ie, the shell) from taking screen dumps....

Actually, this last sentence is not correct.



shap