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New AACS Crack Called "Undefeatable"

Posted by kdawson on from the go-ahead-revoke-all-the-keys dept.

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."

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  1. Not a good start for the morning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just enjoying my coffee, and suddenly I'm faced with an article about somebody's crack!

  2. Got it! by otacon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh I know, don't use HD-DVD...there...defeated.

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    1. Re:Got it! by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think you mean "effect," as in "Grammar Nazis are very effective at repelling women."

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    2. Re:Got it! by WED+Fan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sony has the added security feature in that in a few short years, like Betamax, MiniDisc, etc, the Sony backed format will fail, players and computer devices will disappear and the format will be safe from cracking. Security Through Undesired Format.

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    3. Re:Got it! by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 5, Funny

      Security Through Undesired Format. Sounds like a good name for a standard. Perhaps we can use the French form of the acronym, STFU. :-)

    4. Re:Got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      According to MW it's "put-down"

    5. Re:Got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      An editor had clumsily rearranged one of Winston Churchill's sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."

    6. Re:Got it! by IdleTime · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think you mean:
      Security Through Undesired Format - Intelligent Termination or STUF-IT..

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    7. Re:Got it! by bitt3n · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think you mean "effect," as in "Grammar Nazis are very effective at repelling women."
      I should think a true Grammar Nazi would prefer to be called effectual at repelling women.
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    8. Re:Got it! by Mex · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wow, at least half the replies are trying to be funny. What happened to Slashdot, when did it become a standup comedian-wannabe forum?

      It's cool to have some fun, but when everyone is cracking lame jokes about any theme, it just becomes tiring. In most threads, I have to skip about 5 to 10 "Funny" comments to find an "Insightful" or "Interesting". When did everyone become a comedian?

    9. Re:Got it! by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Good point. Now, quick, look over your head. Do you see something there? Anything? Feel a breeze, at least?

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    10. Re:Got it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not to be outdone, the MPAA is working with filmmakers to ensure that movies encoded onto BlueRay disks will be undesired long before Sony has managed to kill their superior format through stupid business practices. Leading the way is George Lucas who's company, LucasArts, has been the driving force behind many of the technological innovations in movies over the past 30 years. Says Lucas, "Our initial testing has been very positive. Test films like "Episode I" were almost unwatchable. And while the addition of a semi-coherent plot weakened the protection scheme from the two subsequent sequels, we've learned our lesson."

      Lucas claims that his proprietary JarJar technology is showing incredible promise and that many of the summer's biggest blockbusters are planning to include this protection scheme. Yet the technology is not only effective for new movies. "One of our biggest markets is in the protection of older movies as they are released onto the higher definition formats. For example, we've added a 10 minute scene to 'Forrest Gump' featuring a conversation between JarJar and the title character which test audiences have indicated is 'more painful than child birth', as one woman put it."

    11. Re:Got it! by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 5, Funny

      Security Through Format Undesirability

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    12. Re:Got it! by Tsagadai · · Score: 5, Funny

      A French grammar nazi! They had a word for people like you, collaborator.

  3. Undefeatable? by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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    1. Re:Undefeatable? by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny
      Funny, when you said "DMCA" I heard a loud thump. It sounded a lot like Kevin Rose's knees hitting the floor.

      Oh, wait a minute...I think I hear a zipper too.

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    2. Re:Undefeatable? by d3matt · · Score: 3, Funny

      darn... I'm wrong too. it's 128 bits... 32 Hex character=16 bytes=128bits

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    3. Re:Undefeatable? by j-turkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      "I swear you honor, my computer came up with it randomly"
      I'm not certain, but I believe odds of 3.4e+38 to one qualify as "beyond a reasonable doubt." To most, 1 in 2^32 doesn't look very remote. That's what, like 1 in 64, right? ;)
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    4. Re:Undefeatable? by julesh · · Score: 4, Funny

      $ `dd if=/dev/urandom of=File.txt bs=1 count=32 && cat File.txt`

      09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0

      $

      "I swear you honor, my computer came up with it randomly"

      It's worse than that. Your computer randomly came up with a shell command that produced it. The chances of that are... well... freakily low.

    5. Re:Undefeatable? by Lord+Ender · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sorry about the "slick," bub. I'm just bitter that I did the math right, yet you got all the karma.

      And just to rub it in, Mr. +5, you tell me that you didn't even have to spend five years and $50,000 on an education to get where you are. psh.

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  4. I reject your reality and substitute my own by rambag · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I reject your AACS crack and substitute my own"

    1. Re:I reject your reality and substitute my own by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, here's your problem: Your encryption has a big crack in it...

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  5. Back to the grindstone, fellows... by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    Yeah, like arguing the relative merits of Linux versus Windows, or Apple versus MS ... we were getting so close to a breakthrough there, I don't know how we got off-track.

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  6. Re:Get 'em while you can by boarder8925 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So if you're interested in this stuff, you might as well go out and get one of the MS drives or other first-gen drives, because I suspect the hacking possibilities may decrease over time; it's going to be these early drives which are the most hackable.
    I'll buy one now in the hopes of selling it in a few years, when people will probably be willing to pay for a moddable drive.
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  7. Poor Sony? by shawnmchorse · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  8. Re:Get 'em while you can by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'll buy one now in the hopes of selling it in a few years, when people will probably be willing to pay for a moddable drive.

    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.

  9. Re:Get 'em while you can by miskatonic+alumnus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Thanks! by Applekid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good, because now I don't have to admit I'm getting old and can't remember that 09 F-something something.

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  11. Well, what do you know. The inevitable happened. by laughingcoyote · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  12. Re:Perhaps if this is proven to be true.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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)

  13. NeuroMPAAncer by JudgeSlash · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  15. Re:Perhaps if this is proven to be true.... by j-turkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tell me. Does this new definition of "pirate" include those who circumvent copy protection on products they legally bought?
    In a word... yes. You're allowed to archival copies, but not allowed to circumvent protection to it.

    Quite the scam, eh? In that case, yarrrr, she is quite the scam, maytee.
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