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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
DRM
My co-worker Martin had an interesting problem at work this week. After the latest MS critical upgrade and reboot he could no longer open a particular email. His email client told him he didn't have the correct rights. HIS email client.
And the IT department couldn't solve it.
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So now we have not just a DRM system that possibly protects documents that shouldn't be read, but a DRM system that protects documents that *should* be read. A buggy DRM system. Why am I not surprised? This is certainly a place I never expected computers to go. They were supposed to empower us, not be facilitators in taking power away from us.
[*] I may have some of the details wrong here, as I didn't pay too close attention to it - I'll post corrections on monday if I have any of this wrong.
--Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that (Score:2)
This sounds suspiciously like what my boss said his copy of Outlook said. Although he has not yet told me whether he found out what that e-mail was, who it was from, or whether our IT people could sort it.
The poor guy - his dual boot has been stuck mostly in Windows since he became a manager. Maybe I should encourage him to report to the world his love of software [hates-software.com]