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Originally Posted by vweb_calibre
Is there any development underway to use calibre to make the e-book MORE secure? For example, in the Windows environment, or an SELinux environment, the OS could be locked down while calibre was running. Such a lockdown would prevent screenshots and the starting of any debuggers such as IDA Pro. If done in conjunction with some new extension to a popular e-book format, such as epub, the extended epub format would be a good protector of the books IP.  |
I'm tempted to ask why that would be desirable? The source code of calibre is available so protecting it from debugging tools is more than a bit silly. I also tend to use quite a few screenshots of calibre when attempting to explain problems.
Given that that was your first post, you might not have noticed as yet that some of the most popular uses for calibre involve format shifting and DRM removal. If some corporation wants to protect their IP by keeping me from being able to backup my purchased content, bad cess to them. I would certainly hope that Kovid Goyal does not decide that is a desirable direction to take calibre's development.