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The Life and Death of a Silicon Valley Startup Company

The Life and Death of a Silicon Valley Startup Company. Mark Stamp Department of Computer Science San Jose State University. Who Am I?. 1992: PhD, Texas Tech 1992-1993: WPI 1993-2000: NSA 2000-2002: MediaSnap, Inc. 2002-Present: SJSU. What was MediaSnap?. Silicon Valley startup company

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The Life and Death of a Silicon Valley Startup Company

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  1. The Life and Death of a Silicon Valley Startup Company Mark Stamp Department of Computer Science San Jose State University Startup 1

  2. Who Am I? • 1992: PhD, Texas Tech • 1992-1993: WPI • 1993-2000: NSA • 2000-2002: MediaSnap, Inc. • 2002-Present: SJSU Startup 2

  3. What was MediaSnap? • Silicon Valley startup company • Founded June 2000 • I joined in December 2000 • Maximum of 15 employees • Not a dot-com • Funded by In-Q-Tel (CIA) • Digital rights management (DRM) Startup 3

  4. Why MediaSnap? • Three reasons • Money • Money • Money Startup 4

  5. What is DRM? • Digital book example • “Persistent protection” • Crypto is not the answer • Security by obscurity? Startup 5

  6. MediaSnap • DRM for pdf documents • For use within enterprise • Medical records • Insurance documents Startup 6

  7. Mathematics? • Cryptography • Obscurity • Our own “scrambling” algorithms • Key management/caching • Tamper resistance • Software uniqueness Startup 7

  8. Non-mathematics • Dotcom meltdown • 9/11/2001 • Management • In-Q-Tel • Other Startup 8

  9. More info • M. Stamp, Digital rights management: The technology behind the hype, to appear in Journal of Electronic Commerce Research,http://www.csulb.edu/web/journals/jecr/issues/20033/paper3 • M. Stamp, Risks of digital rights management, Communications of the ACM,http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/insiderisks.html#147 • M. Stamp, Digital rights management: For better or for worse?, ExtremeTech,http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1051610,00.asp • M. Stamp, Risks of monoculture, to appear in Communications of the ACM Startup 9

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