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>I know, because I'm working on secure embedded video codec hardware, and our customers are targeting this..

Why? Or more specifically, why you, doing that?

You can say no, you know. To solve your problem, you're making for some of the least scrupulous people on the planet, (Hollywood types), the primitives to a guaranteed technologically enforceable tyranny. Remember that just because someone says they won't do something with a thing, doesn't mean the heel turn isn't coming. Sometimes you just don't build things because people can't be trusted with them.

So, why are you doing it?

You might think it's just harmless bits now... But today's harmless bits are tomorrow's chain links. Seriously asking. Might help me out of a mental hang up I'm trying to work through.



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