[Dtb-talk] iPhone/iPad/iPod touch NLS Playback question

[Greg Kearney]

It would be done just as HumanWare does it now. With the Stream you contact HumanWare who then verifies your status with the NLS and then sends back to you the authorisation key for your Stream. Anyone can buy a stream but only NLS users can get the key to play NLS books in one.

In the case of the iPhone you would contact us, we would verify they user with the NLS the same way HumanWare does and send back to you the authorisation key tied to your particular phone. In theory anyway it would be possible to have the phone check on occasion to make sure the key was still authorised by the NLS for use and deactivate it if it was not.


Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA 6100
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On 17/05/2010, at 8:58 AM, Mike Freeman wrote:

> Who's gonna do the activation/deactivation?
> 
> Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kearney" <gkearney at gmail.com>
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>> Is not the loss of even one NLS authorised Stream to an outside entity or person a breach of the security of the whole system? As I understand that system it is dependent upon only a few keys the breaching of which imperils the entire scheme.
>> 
>> In theory at least the iPhone and related devices could be made even more secure than the Stream. The iPhone could, excuse the term here, "phone home" to check if the authorisation keys are still valid. In this way if a phone were to be stolen, lost, sold or if the user simply dies the NLS key in the phone could be deactivated.
>> 
>> 
>> Gregory Kearney | Manager Accessible Media
>> Association for the Blind of WA - Guide Dogs WA
>> PO Box 101, Victoria Park WA 6979 | 61 Kitchener Ave, Victoria Park WA 6100
>> Tel: 08 9311 8246 | Fax: 08 9361 8696 | www.guidedogswa.com.au
>> Tel: 307-224-4022 (North America)
>> Email: greg.kearney at guidedogswa.com.au
>> Email: gkearney at gmail.com
>> 
>> On 17/05/2010, at 5:23 AM, Mike Freeman wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm on my third Stream also; one had a minor problem that couldn't be fixed; the second was stolen and I'm using the third.
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>>> To: "Discussion of Digital Talking Books" <dtb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 1:38 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Dtb-talk] iPhone/iPad/iPod touch NLS Playback question
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>>> 
>>>> Possibly Mike, but I am not sure.  For one reason and another, (one involving the so-called porcelain God,) I am on my third Stream and have registered other machines too.  I am not sure the iPod would be appreciably different.
>>>> 
>>>> Dave
>>>> 
>>>> At 01:41 PM 5/16/2010, you wrote:
>>>>> One more thought:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Devices such as the iPhone become obsolete much more quickly than adaptive tech for the blind. So you'd constantly be registering your new iPhones. Impractical to my way of thinking.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mike
>>>> 
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