Micro$oft DRM poses severe safety loophole

OK, you know the basic drill. You download a file off of Kazaa, Bearshare and the like (or even an ordinary website - remember them?).

According to M$ DRM protocol, you can play a file 3 times (example) before you have to decide to keep it or not - kind of like a web browser asking you a simple question. The problem is, that Yes or No you click on could be malicious code. M$ knows the problem exists. According to David Caulton, group product manager for Microsoft's Windows Digital Media Division. "We wouldn't want to endorse anything that involved delivery of content that appears to be one thing, and then something else is delivered."

He also further states ""It's possible that someone could modify [an existing audio] file after it's created to point back to their http server."

Hmmm..... next time you click on any dialogue box, this should make you wonder. For more information on this topic, and other examples - check out the PCWorld article