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Microsoft's Velvet Glove
Mark Burnett, 2005-01-31

Redmond's plan to make you install Windows authentication software before downloading vital security patches is a reasonable and gentle effort to limit piracy.

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Microsoft's Velvet Glove 2005-02-02
Anonymous
Decent read, but flawed.

"For those people who refuse to buy the software and are too dumb to steal the patches or circumvent the system...

would we really expect them to be secure even if the patches are freely available?"

While this logic applies to some pirates, it certainly doesnt apply...

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