Judging from the first 5 minutes, this Wired article by the same author contains pretty much the same content in textual form - http://www.wired.com/2014/12/government-computer-security
But given that the link is an hour-and-a-half long, and that article is quite brief, it would be more accurate to say that he's filling in some of the content of his presentation with some-of-up-to-all-of his article. (But the link must have a lot more than what's in the article.)
I may listen to all of the presentation in the near future, on the chance that he will have something fresher and newer to say than things he's already said about his "war on general-purpose computers" thesis.
- https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+coming+war+...
- http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
I appreciate him spreading such messages.
it includes a non-trivial Q & A session. The thing that stood out for me is a statement my Lessig that society is governed by Code, Laws, Norms and Markets.
You can even see bits of it in his 2004 talk: http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt
But it's an important topic and he's not wrong.
In standard HTML a server sends you some text bits and data streams and your browser chooses what it wants to do with them. Save them, display them on the screen, ignore them, etc. With DRM the browser has to be specifically engineered to do not what you want it to do, but what the person sending the data wants it to do. This is almost always done inside of some kind of 'black box of digital magic', be it software or hardware. If you had control or insight of the black box it is likely you could subvert control of the encrypted media.
Now I won't say that it directly enables control over your browser any more so than Flash does (Only 76 CVE's in 2014), but every black box is a point of attack for hackers.
edit: RST you're wicked fast, you beat me by all of 3 ms there or so :) Have an upvote!