Ubisoft DRM Already Cracked
As expected, there has been a zero-day exploit for Ubisoft’s new shiny DRM (see my last post), in the newly released game Silent Hunter 5. Well, it was not totally zero-day, since it took slightly more than 24 hours, apparently. Still, indeed it is now the case that the only ones suffering from the whole [...]
PC: The Platform with Rampant DRM
Yeah, it’s horrible. DRM is rampant on the PC. Most recent example: Ubisoft. There is a good article on Rock Paper Shotgun about this. What they have announced to do is the following: With every future Ubisoft game, whether it’s single player or multiplayer, online or offline, boxed with a CD or delivered via download, [...]
Swiss RFID Referendum: Nearly There!
We’re nearly there, but the referendum against biometric Swiss passports is still lacking 4’500 signatures, and there’s only a few days left. So if you haven’t printed, signed, and sent in a signature sheet yet, please do so now! In short, again, the reasons why I think biometric passports as per the current proposal are [...]
Help! Terrorists in World of Warcraft!
Avast, me hearties! I played me fair share o’ World o’ Warcraft, enough t’ know ‘t’s incredibly addictive, an’ enough t’ know ‘t’s nay good fer me when I do. Which, I guess, won’t avast me from tryin’ ou’ Wrath o’ th’ Lich King an’ th’ new Davy Jones’ locker Knight class anyway when ‘t [...]
Stop RFID in Swiss Passports!
The Swiss government has decided that our passports, like a few before ours, should store data on RFID chips. Meaning, the following data would be stored in that chip: fingerprints a digital photograph all the data that’s also available in printed form (name, gender, date of birth, eye color, and so on) All this data [...]
Spore’s DRM
Spore was released in the last few days, meanwhile in both Europe and the US. I was really excited about the game. And yet I’m most probably not going to buy or play it, at least not until EA releases a version without SecuROM. Even though I’d probably enjoy it. Too bad. I hate piracy, [...]
Google Chrome Roundup
Here goes the second round of my Google Chrome review, mainly consisting of links to news and discussions. Chrome Phone Home Maybe you heard (I hear it was even on TV?) that Chrome loves E.T. and likes to phone home. Yes, it does, but not that much more so than other browsers: Google’s Matt Cutts [...]
Circumventing Google’s Monopoly
I just wrote this as a comment as an answer to a post on Meinungsfreiheit.li about the Google monopoly – and I think it might fit here too. His point was that Google is collecting data from everywhere, about everyone, and while that’s well-known for some time, there are working countermeasures too. The Problem A [...]
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