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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Do you have any support for that assertion? Just curious as to where the several online libraries were hiding ... I was never lucky enough to find one until very recently.
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Right. There aren't many left anymore. The auto-expiring eBooks simply didn't work. People stopped "checking them out" and the libraries that were doing it stopped.
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Also, I don't see that the expiration code program not working is somehow a failure of the system as a whole, it just sounds like poor programming to me.
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Then you need to learn more about programming. Please don't take that as a slam.
As Bruce Schneier says: Anyone can create an encryption system that he can't break. But that doesn't mean it can't be broken.
Just because you can't see why it's difficult, doesn't mean that it's easy.
This topic is large and has already been discussed here (and in other places). The summary of the argument basically is:
1. The reader must be able to read the content of the eBook.
2. Therefore, someone can examine how the reader does it and break the system.