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New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable"
Tuoqui writes "With all the focus on the infamous hexadecimal number, people may be ignoring a bigger weakness in the AACS armor, which emerged two weeks ago. Some hackers have figured out how to crack AACS in a way that cannot be defeated, even by revoking all the keys in circulation."
I'm just enjoying my coffee, and suddenly I'm faced with an article about somebody's crack!
Oh I know, don't use HD-DVD...there...defeated.
In a world of acronyms, the words are the real victims.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Huh, looks like the new strategy is issuing DMCA Takedown orders against anyone who suggests that it is undefeatable...
Summation 2
"I reject your AACS crack and substitute my own"
"No matter how many Private Host Keys they revoke we will still be able to get Volume IDs using patched xbox 360 HD DVD drives."
I hope the hacker isn't suggesting that this whole encryption key debackle is somehow Microsoft's fault, could you imagine the lawsuit?
Summation 2
All apologies to those who feel that DRM is still a relevant freedom related issue... But I honestly feel that discussing this is just a drain on resources that could be directed towards more fertile topics.
... we were getting so close to a breakthrough there, I don't know how we got off-track.
Yeah, like arguing the relative merits of Linux versus Windows, or Apple versus MS
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Keep your eyes to the sky.
I have to wonder if the huge amount of HD-DVD hack coverage lately is starting to make Sony wish that someone would spend more time hacking Blu-Ray. There's no such thing as bad press?
But wouldn't that make it hard to fry eggs on your XBOX? I mean, who are you kidding?
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Good thinking. After all, what better investment over time than computer hardware. I can't even begin to imagine how much I could get for my Atari 800 now. And to think I paid only $1,000 for it! But I'm no fool. I'm passing this one down to my grandkids to help fund their college education.
If they start encasing circuit boards in epoxy then there is little doubt that people will soon be taking hammers and chisels to their HD-DVD players.
Then they really will be cracking them.
Good, because now I don't have to admit I'm getting old and can't remember that 09 F-something something.
More Twoson than Cupertino
Developing an overblown DRM system: Millions of dollars.
Hiring consultants to tell you it'll really, really work this time after firing all the ones who informed you copy protection is a cryptographic impossibility: Thousands of dollars.
Paying lawyers to send cease-and-desist letters to thousands of websites after the key leaks: $500/hour.
Watching yet another DRM scheme go up in flames shortly after its release: Priceless.
To fight the war on terror, stop being afraid.
1. Release HD movies
2. Wait for adoption
3. With ample support from a corrupt gouvernment, make it so that the only way to view the movies is to use a easily encountered but illegal circumvention tool
4. ???^H^H^HLawsuits
5. Profit!!!
(6. Be the first against the wall when the revolution comes)
The sky above the port was the color of bittorrent, tuned to a dead tracker.
"It's not like I'm leeching," MPAAse heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of Reality. "It's like my body's developed this massive plot deficiency." It was a Slashdot voice and a Slashdot joke...
Apologies to Gibson.
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Whitney Houston vows to conquer the undefeatable the crack - more news at 11.
I'm not a Troll, it's reverse psychology.
Quite the scam, eh? In that case, yarrrr, she is quite the scam, maytee.
-Turkey
Scene: Antiques Roadshow 2137
... Ok moving on to our next piece, a genuine Atari 2600 from the late 20th century. Mr. Kim, you say that your great, great grandfather paid $1,000 for this system in the 1980s?
Host: I'm sorry Mr. Quan, your antique laser rifle is only worth about $1,000,000.00.
Quan: Oh crap. That won't even pay rent these days. I'm going to go kill myself. [puts rifle to his head and fires]
Host: Will someone clean that up?
Kim: Yes, and this particular unit is even more famous because he posted about it on Slashdot in 2007.
Host: Well Mr. Kim, I have a surprise for you! Your unit is now worth approximately $2,000. What do you think of that?
Kim: Can I borrow that other guy's laser rifle?
I simply won't spend a penny of mine if Sony's name is on it.
As someone whose daughter put a Sony-BMG rootkit on my computer, I've refused to buy or rent anything with Sony's name on it for quite some time now. If a Sony movie that I want to see comes out I'll wait until a friend brings a copy over to watch. As to their music, well, I haven't heard anything from any of the major labels I like in a long time. WTF ever happened to rock? Did it really die? I mean, shit, all the young folks are still in the bars covering Zepplin and Ozzie and Lynard Skynard. Speaking of which, have you ever once been in a bar with a live band without hearing some drunk yell "free bird"?
Sony can kiss my nerdy old ass. I was a customer for literally decades, but they will never ever see another dime from this geezer. They, their CEO, their board, all their employees and every one of their God damned stockholders can and will burn in hell.
Note to mods: mod me as you wish, I'm AC. But this isn't flamebait, it's a fucking FLAME. If you're a Sony fan I hate you, too.
(Capcha="domicile", WTF is a nerd supposed to know about that? Gees, these capchas get harder all the time)