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Arxan CTO Musings: April 2011
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Over The Top Media Distribution. A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at OTTCon (the Over The Top Conference) in San Jose, California. What is "over the top"? The cable companies are highly involved, particularly as they strive for a larger business role than just as a bandwidth provider for "the last mile", which in turn has been an...
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Arxan CTO Musings: A New Decade of Computing!
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Thursday, January 6, 2011. A New Decade of Computing! 2010 is over, and a new decade is beginning to unfold. We have a tidal wave of computing change occurring, indeed it is really just getting started. Perhaps we'll get to internet access and general computing paradigms where textual input is generally obsolete! Note: I'm not referring to the detailed level o...
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Arxan CTO Musings: March 2011
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Thursday, March 3, 2011. Android Marketplace Apps Removed by Google. For quite some time now I and others have been speaking out regarding the risks of the Android application marketplace, as an un-vetted "wild west" for software. Http:/ www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/02/google.malware.andriod/index.html? Posted by Kevin Morgan. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Arxan CTO Musings: The Anti-Piracy Fiscal Maelstrom
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Monday, November 15, 2010. The Anti-Piracy Fiscal Maelstrom. There are recent reports of Microsoft spending upwards of $200M (yes, million! A year on anti-piracy technology. See the New York Times feature article:. Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/technology/07piracy.html? We are also familiar with failure. That's right, I'm not here to claim our solution...
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Arxan CTO Musings: October 2009
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The Democratization of Software. It's a strange new software world! For those of us old enough to remember things like mainframes (my first ever computer programs ran on an IBM 360 model E22 at a local community college! Then it was on to writing assembly code for a PDP 11/35 running a customized version of RT-11, to drive and test a...
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Arxan CTO Musings: November 2010
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Monday, November 15, 2010. The Anti-Piracy Fiscal Maelstrom. There are recent reports of Microsoft spending upwards of $200M (yes, million! A year on anti-piracy technology. See the New York Times feature article:. Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/technology/07piracy.html? We are also familiar with failure. That's right, I'm not here to claim our solution...
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Arxan CTO Musings: May 2010
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Monday, May 24, 2010. If our property can be infinitely reproduced and instantaneously distributed all over the planet without cost, without our knowledge, without its even leaving our possession, how can we protect it? How are we going to get paid for the work we do with our minds? We here at Arxan can certainly attest to the "obsessive competition" as we eng...
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Arxan CTO Musings: September 2010
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. The HDCP copy protection technology has been successfully hacked, through the generation and publication of the overall master key:. Http:/ www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Intel-Investigating-HDCP-Master-Key-Exposure-384053/. What does this really mean? How did this happen? The answer is a hard pill to swallow: our digital media securit...
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Arxan CTO Musings: Android Marketplace Apps Removed by Google
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Discussion on the latest application security developments and issues, including piracy, code protection, application hardening and cybersecurity. Thursday, March 3, 2011. Android Marketplace Apps Removed by Google. For quite some time now I and others have been speaking out regarding the risks of the Android application marketplace, as an un-vetted "wild west" for software. Http:/ www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/02/google.malware.andriod/index.html? Posted by Kevin Morgan. View my complete profile.
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