Paul wrote on 12th Jan. 2015 04:39 UTC + 2 :
The only question in my mind would be, what tool made
CDROM-XA in the first place ? Maybe the hospital diagnostic
instrument was programmed by space aliens ? Space aliens like
to make trivial changes to formats, to confuse the humans.
Hello,
A long time ago, I read a book, I do not remember whether it was about
MS-DOS or about assembly programming (I think it was MS-DOS), that
presented the basics about a different formatting for a floppy disk,
introduced as a way of some sort of cryptography, so that the floppy can
only be read with the intended software. Easy to imagine a transposition
to a CD, and then a DVD.
You know, space aliens are not the only ones willing to protect their
data. About applying this to the medical context, I guess Micky has an
idea about whom to speak about it with.