Vista DRM Prevents Kernel Tampering

mjdroner writes "A ZDNet blog reports on a new DRM feature for Vista that 'protects' the kernel from tampering. The blog quotes a Microsoft document: 'Code (CI) protects Windows Vista by verifying that system binaries haven't been tampered with by malicious code and by ensuring that there are no unsigned drivers running in kernel mode on the system.' The blog says that much of the DRM in Vista is simply a port from XP, but that this feature is new to the OS."

Re:innovative

[smittyoneeach]

Yes. The sooner enough people get bent over and used by proprietary technology, the faster we can move on to something that doesn't suck like this.

is Vista that fabled 8th generation OS?

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"From: (Blair P. Houghton)

I predict that Eighth Generation computers
will compile no programs, run no applications,
and access no data. Instead they will be
designed and tuned to give a continuously
variable spectrum of elegant and precise
error messages describing your failure to
induce them to do so."

Yay Vista!

Re:is Vista that fabled 8th generation OS?

[ggalvao]

Yay! One more barrier for open source free non-propietary drivers to jump over!

Optimism

[regular_gonzalez]

I'm an optimist by nature, so I'll say it'll take hackers 3 months to crack the kernel DRM.

Re:Coercion?

[mrchaotica]

Reminder: Video drivers are user-mode in Vista.

Ah, but what about "Trusted[sic]" Platform Module drivers?

Re:Not all drivers

[hotdiggitydawg]

That's a nasty cough you have there. I think you might've picked up a bug...

Cost of WinVista Kernel DRM?

[WillAffleckUW]

Cost of WinVista Kernel DRM - part of the $300 price of WinVista
Cost of hair torn out by DRM refusing to let you do what the Constitution explicity permits - $1000 for hair plugs
Cost of WinVista hack to "fix" Kernal DRM - priceless

Re:Get real

[Borland]

This is the beginning of the end, finally. In a few years, Microsoft will be irrelevant.

to which I reply

Then you're an idiot.

I swear, it's like listening to Christian zealots waiting for the rapture. "This time, by God, the world will end...nope this time...nope this time. Face it my friend, evil will always triumph because good is FOSS.

Re:Coercion?

[Real1tyCzech]

???

FTFA:

ensuring that there are no unsigned drivers running in kernel mode

Drivers should be running in user-mode anyway.

This is not news, or rather, it is, but only because some MS-Basher wants to spread more FUD. Stupid. No, ignorant. No, wait...what was the question again? ....Oh, pretty colors....dahhhh..

Not that hard to do.

[Kadin2048]

Nah you just send them the $500 from somebody's credit card that you got via your phishing scheme.

They'll "follow the money" for sure, but to where?

Re:Coercion?

[bruno.fatia]

It's not a hole, its a feature.