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Originally Posted by jlp
I'm upset that eReader uses cc numbers as DRM (aka Digital Restrictions Madness) and I will certainly NEVER buy from them.
If you loose your PDA or get it stolen... you're toast. You might as well hand out your credit card... :roll:
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Ahhhh, classic JLP. Another rant based on an incorrect assumption with no basis in fact. :roll:
That isn't how it works. They take your name and CC# when you buy the book and run it through a series of mathematical formulas and come up with a
one way hash. The OWH goes into the book. You can't extract the CC# or name from the OWH, that is why it is called one way.
Then, when you get the ebook, you put your CC# and name into the eReader software. It has the same formulas in it and it genrates a OWH. If it matches, the ebook is opened. If not, then it isn't. You can read more about it
here on PPCT or in
this .ebook thread on usenet where Peter Fry, a former programmer at Palm Digital Media/eReader talks about the OWH the software and server uses.
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