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AACS Device Key Found
henrypijames writes "The intense effort by the fair-use community to circumvent AACS (the content protection protocol of HD DVD and Blu-Ray) has produced yet another stunning result: The AACS Device Key of the WinDVD 8 has been found, allowing any movie playable by it to be decrypted. This new discovery by ATARI Vampire of the Doom9 forum is based on the previous research of two other forum members, muslix64 (who found a way to locate the Title Keys of single movies) and arnezami (who extracted the Processing Key of an unspecified software player). AACS certainly seems to be falling apart bit for bit every day now."
In fact let that team wait for a lawsuit...if this lawsuit does not materialize, then we can celebrate.
I'd vote this down as karma whoring...
Not really. How do you know that ALL the code checks were removed?
How do you know that it wont munge the zips?
How do you know it wont just lie and go right through the "good" password?
If I was them, I'd chew up CPU cycles while showing a glitzy screen that looks like it's doing work.
Better yet, how do you know this software isnt boobytrapped ? Im sure you could do an exhaustive search by creating dead listings and hopping around in an ICE, but that only gets you so far. For as far as you know it, it could download a small batch file depending on specific user input and execute arbitrary instructions (like removing home directory) or slowly corrupting your user data.
If a program slowly changed your Document/Spreadsheet/Database setup in that it corrupted letters and numbers, when would you notice it?
Lastly, when I had my hand at it, I didnt like AZPR and my preparation that I had to do to even debug it properly. That, and what +Fravia says usually is true. I have his site to thank for what I taught myself what I know now.