Bruce Schneier asks (rhetorically) why is it that Micro$oft can only bring itself to issue patches once a month to clean up security holes in its operating system, browser, and applications … but is willing to scramble within days to issue patches to its Digital Rights Management (DRM) software when someone out there finds a way to crack it?
The obvious (rhetorical) answer: money. Broken OS/browser/applications aren’t going to (yet) seriously impact the M$ bottom line. Causing media companies to think that their recordings aren’t safe, though, if they use the Micro$oft platform will. Thus the scramble to patch these gaps as soon as they come up.
It’s not that M$ is necessarily evil or wrong for this. But it’s indicative of where their true interests are (only peripherally with their end-user community), and who they’re willing to do what for to protect those interests.