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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.
When I'm voting on the firehose I look for several things:
- I usually vote down when people post enormous quotes from TFA in their summary
- I usually vote down if more than half the summary is a quote from TFA
- I usually vote down use of ""text text text"". Quote within quote style is important to programmers.
- I usually vote down if the summary is longer than two paragraphs
- I usually vote down if line breaks or quoting makes the summary look sloppy
- I usually vote down when full URL links are included as opposed to using an href
- I usually vote down if an href link covers entire sentences
- I usually vote down if the href'd words make up more than 10% of the summary text
- I usually vote down if the summary contains multiple spelling or grammar errors (c'mon peeps, I don't want to be a purist, but I value an effort for publication quality)
- I usually vote down if the summary reads like an advertisement
- I usually vote down if there does not seem to be a single main reference (ie. summaries, IMHO, are about one article and may contain auxiliary links but shouldn't read like a discussion in and of themselves)
- I usually vote down if I smell any scent of trollage
If I can pass through all of these while reading the summary I usually vote up by default. Journal entries are almost always voted up regardless of the applicability of the above criteria. I try to keep an eye on the topics to see if they match the headline and content though I've let a few slip.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
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.