If you are a big company or organization with lots of correspondence and documents you want to keep secret, Windows RM is, indeed, a blessing. If you are a whistleblower, a journalist, a lawyer, a cop — or anyone who has the audacity to want to use software other than Microsoft Windows or Office — you should be very afraid. Microsoft is positioning Rights Management as technology aimed at protecting privacy and increasing security. In its white paper on Windows RM, Microsoft even attempts to hitch a ride on the Homeland Security bandwagon by declaring its RM technology a possible aid in the government's quest to combat cybercrime and more tightly secure classified documents.
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