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MS DRM Version 2 - Cracked
As the title says: Microsoft Digital Rights Management Version 2 has been cracked. The Register has the story, including a link to a downloadable zip file which contains source code, explanation and a small DOS utility. Grab it while you can. You can also read the explanation directly here, and you can also find it with Google.
Yay fp@!
I wonder la la la
Whats the big deal about having the FP anyway?
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Adequacy is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Adequacy community when last month Slashdot confirmed that Adequacy accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all trolling. Coming on the heels of the latest Geekizoid survey which plainly states that Adequacy has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Adequacy is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by placing third-to-last in AST's recent listing of top five trollsites.
You don't need to be a streetlawyer [geocities.com] to predict Adequacy.org [adequacy.org]'s future. The hand writing is on the wall: Adequacy [adequacy.org] faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Adequacy.org [adequacy.org] because Adequacy [adequacy.org] is dying. Things are looking very bad for Adequacy [adequacy.org]. As many of us are already aware, Adequacy [adequacy.org] continues to lose site traffic.
Let's try to keep the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot [washington.edu] leader Rob "CmdrTaco" [cmdrtaco.net] Malda states that there are about 5000 semi-regular posters to Slashdot.org [washington.edu]. How many users of Geekizoid [geekizoid.com] are there? The ratio of Slashdot [washington.edu] to Geekizoid [geekizoid.com] posts is roughly in ratio of 100 to 1. Therefore there are about 5000/100 = 50 occasional Geekizoid [geekizoid.com] posters. The ratio of Adequacy [adequacy.org] posters to Geekizoid [geekizoid.com] posters is about 5 to 1. Therefore there are 50 * 5 = 250 occasional posters to Adequacy.org [adequacy.org]. This is approximately equal to the number of editors [adequacy.org] listed on Adequacy [adequacy.org]'s website added to the eleven non-editors who read the site.
Traffic [adequacy.org] to Adequacy [adequacy.org] continues to diminish. In July 2001, Adequacy [adequacy.org] received approximately 160,000 pageviews. In August, Adequacy [adequacy.org] received only 80,000 pageviews. The number of pageviews in September (as of September 10, when Adequacy cowardlyly hid their statistics) is 60,000, a paltry 37% of its July traffic. At current rates, the amount of Adequacy [adequacy.org] traffic will hit 0 by the end of the year.
According to Netcraft [netcraft.com], Adequacy [adequacy.org]'s situation is grim. Due to the troubles of Speakeasy DSL [speakeasy.org], DoS attacks and so on, Adequacy [adequacy.org] was forced out of business and was taken over by JAT Computer Consulting [jatnet.com] which hosts another troubled website [geekizoid.com]. Now JAT Computer Consulting [jatnet.com] is also dying, its corpse being turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Adequacy [adequacy.org] has steadily declined in readership. Adequacy [adequacy.org] is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Adequacy [adequacy.org] is to survive at all it will be among right-wing maniacs [mynra.com], Libertarians [nazi.org], and trolls [kuro5hin.org]. Adequacy [adequacy.org] continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle [thepope.org] could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Adequacy.org [adequacy.org] is dead.
Adequacy is dying
Own3D!
This is just like the deCSS hack - a good piece of work exposing a flawed implementation of a rights management scheme.
.wma files on Linux - the decoder still requires the MS dll to get the keys out for you.
However, at the moment two little differences are apparent:
1. This doesn't allow you to decode
2. The author has remained anonymous! No DMCA prosecutions here, assuming she has covered her tracks properly.
how utterly irresponsible and ridiculous that HeUnique insists that we "Grab it while you can."
:)
encouraging the slashdot community to go and download a piece of code that breaks a well-known and popular security methodology, quite possibly breaking the law in the process, simply because they can? how infantile and myopic.
oh, it's not that i object to the public breaking another MS Standard, or the ease with which the source is now distributed around the 'net.. i'm concerned for the poor schmuck who runs the webserver that is now so totally and irrevocably screwed by the slashdot effect.
please mirror
- Entertaining Bits from the Ancient Kernel Tree
Yeah, right in the middle of mine fields.
Assuming is true, jou just made it 50% easier to find out who _she_ is. Maybe more, 'cause woman teechies this good are not common (uhm, maybe we have to rethink about it).
Ciao
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FB
i was just wondering.
can i just put a d@mn3d windows behind a firewall, and simply not allow them to touch me?
or at least not touch me on certain ports and so.
what can they do about that?
that would take kare of they messing with my pc only though.
any thoughts on this?
Its you against 5 moderators, buddy! :)
aasasdasd
Once upon a time the number of the post was usable as a chronological order indicator as well. Supposedly this was changed as part of a larger strategy to make achieveing first post less attractive, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. I'd just as soon see the old way brought back.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.