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Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer
Byte Swapper writes "After all the fuss over the AACS trying to censor a certain 128-bit number that now has something over two million hits on Google, the folks at Freedom to Tinker would like to point out that you too can own your own integer. They've set up a script that will generate a random number, encrypt a copyrighted haiku with it, and then deed the number back to you. You won't get a copyright on the number or the haiku, but your number has become an illegal circumvention device under the DMCA, such that anyone subject to US law caught distributing it can be punished under the DMCA's anti-trafficking section, for which the DMCA's Safe Harbor provisions do not apply. So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
That's right, 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA is mine, and I'll be playing it in the Impossiball Lottery twice a week until it pays off. No more Quick Picks for me!
... or even as a WPA (or WEP) key!
... and don't think I won't. I'm crazy enough to do it. I swear I am. Really.
Remember kids, no one else out there can ever use 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA to play the lotto, to decrypt anything
I'll be googling 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA everyday until I win that lotto jackpot
Here is my number... I wonder if its also an AACS key by coincidence :)
I'll see your F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 and raise you a F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663D184
Ha! You'll never catch me coppahs!
We figured out a long time ago that it's easier to elect seven judges than to elect 132 legislators.
Mine's 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0. I wonder
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"So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
sooooooooo, it has come to this !!!!!
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If I use your number (F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088) in this reply, I guess slashdot will have to remove my comment if you file a complaint with the DMCA. Go ahead and try it, I'd like to see what happens with my posting of your number F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088. There I said it again! Ha!
Why not create a system where ANY 128bit number can decrypt the haiku. Then you can go after anyone distributing any 128bit number. Say, like using IPv6.
"Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals."
Isn't it great?!?!?!?!?!
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
I'm going to go register "42".
Then I will own the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
I am a free man!
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered.
My life is my own.
97 A5 9D EB B9 9C AD 48 5C 0F 61 3B 51 46 73 30
This is my 128-bit integer. There are many like it but this one is mine. My 128-bit integer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my 128-bit integer is useless. Without my 128-bit integer I am useless.
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Above content protected under DMCA, DRM and AACS (as a trade secret) by Johnny F.
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Oh, drat, I spilled the bean.
i hereby state copyright over the number 277, which is an expression of duality of the universe (heat/cold good/evil), and the fact all things, including 7, which is lucky,, are better in twos. Any expression of this piece of my work without my express written consent will be prosecuted to the full extent of any applicable laws.
--UPDATE--
I have noticed that some pirates have converted this note to a tone, they are calling it C sharp (277hz). My number is to be represented as a digit only, this is obviously an encryption circumvention technique and will not be tolerated. Please fork over 5 trillion dollars and your first born child.
NOW!
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Being a criminal means infringing on someone's rights. Rights are defined as to determine how scarce resources are to be controlled. Information is not a scarce resource, by copying music from someone, I am not invading anyone's property, or if you prefer infringing on anyone's right.
\u262D = \u5350
If anyone uses the number 3, I will send them a DMCA takedown notice for infringing on this encoded copyrighted work of literature.
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Here's my copyrighted key:
:S
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."
I'm worried that someone will try to claim prior art though...
It's mine! Stay away!
Microsoft is Good!
NetBSD is slow!
OpenSource licensing is for idealistic hippies!
Hmm... Let's see now:
It seems like the infamous "Step 2" is "Trick slashdotters into including a DMCA DRM Circumvention Scheme in the Subject of their replies.
Excellent...
One of the basic properties of copyright is that if you enclose it in quotes and attribute the source, like "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0", then there's no problem. This quoted integer is the public key for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Badass Resumes
Practically every cryptographer will agree that as soon as your secret key is known, it is too late for damage control. The only thing you can do is change the key. Trying to suppress it is entirely futile and a singn of significant stupidity.
At the same time, you cannot protect numbers. They do not belong to anybody.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Your proposal is acceptable.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Lots of laws need to be broken. Bad laws disobeyed get them changed. How do you feel about the 'criminal' blacks that rode in the front of the bus in Mongomery Alabama in the 60's. Clearly criminal, but was it wrong?
DRM is not about copyright infringement, it is about criminalizing not letting some one control how you use what you actually buy and pay for.
I am sick of hearing that not paying some media giant every time you hear some song, or watch some movie is piracy. I do not think it is, and I do not think there is naything wrong with sharing it for free.
What I think copyright piracy is, it to make counterfeit CD's DVD's etc and selling them for money.
I see nothing at all wrong with sharing software, movies, songs, books, etc as long as you are not representing them to be original or charging for them.
Is this the way the laws are today? , nope, cause we have corrupt politicos doing the bidding of the big media companies that finance their campaigns.
So if my conscience tells me some law is wrong, unfair, or unjust, oh well.
Bad laws need to be broken often enough to make them change.
Looks at the 09 f9 thing, people have just had enough silliness with this.
Cheers
* Carthago Delenda Est *
I just got 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00. I figured it's bound to turn up on someone's hard drive. My chances are now better than ever to live the American Dream of this century.
How about 1337? Damn, I'm going to be rich!
Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals.
First off, we're talking about DVD's and movies, not music.
Secondly then if you want to live in a world where a corporation has the power to determine IF you are allowed to watch a movie you purchased, how many times, and on what equipment - then so be it. Most of us resent the very thought, much less this feeble and poorly thought out attempt at implementation.
Thirdly, copyright infringement has only recently been made a "crime", in the US. In many other countries it's a civil matter. You know, I have never driven under the speed limit - mostly I have driven 15 to 20% over. Should I go to jail for that, too?
I go to movies. I pay to go to the movies. Why do I have to sit through a 5 minute sermon on how evil piracy is when I paid to get there? Then again, when I buy a DVD, why the hell should I be FORCED to watch trailers and nowadays even ads? So I rip it, and get my right of choice back.
While this code can be used to rip things and publish them on the internet, it's useful to me mostly to be able to see the movies I bought in the format I want. Call me a criminal if you will. I will call you a mindless consumer. Take what you're given and shut up. Leave those of us who want to DO something about the situation alone - when the REAL information revolution happens you'll have us to thank.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
No. Most encryption is done with ordinary private (random) keys. The keys are often securely exchanged with public key cryptography (the one with the prime keys), but you gain little from using prime numbers to do your bulk encryption, at a considerable computational cost.
DMCA prevents circumventing copy-protection techniques. It covers the private keys, which are usually just really long random integers.
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 42
thats right suckers! I own the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Please, don't all send your checks to me at once.
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That one should pay off pretty quickly :-)
hex("natalie portman") = 6e 61 74 61 6c 69 65 20 70 6f 72 74 6d 61 6e 00
Now she's mine! Those of you who invoke hot grits will be hearing from my lawyer.
This has been done before with the DeCSS algorithm, for the express purpose of proving that it's stupid to restrict it's distribution as, supposedly, you can't prevent a prime number with interesting property to be published in press.
"Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality." - [Tips: 1DrYakQDKCQ6y52z6QbnkxHXAocMZJE61o ]
You missed out 'How many roads must a man walk down?'
Don't go to a brothel if you want to buy broth
Information may not be a scarce resource, but good music is. The number of good songs in the world is (from the perspective of most people) much smaller than the number of bad songs. So someone who writes a good song thus has ownership rights to something that could reasonably be considered a scarce resource, and as such, by copying music from someone, you are indeed infringing upon the songwriter's right (by your definition, at least).
You can turn your own, personal 128 bits into an image here: http://robots.org.uk/itii/
it is where I work.
"Just Smile and Nod." --Huck
I never thought there would *actually* be a campaign to use up all the GUIDs.
"you insensitive clod" would have fit nicely in there.
That's strange... for some reason my number is 404...
No, it means breaking a criminal law.
That's a rather unusual definition of rights. A more typical definition of a right would be "a just claim or title, whether legal, prescriptive, or moral." (the first noun definition.)
You are violating a legal property right.
Really, your entire argument seems to be based on inventing unusual definitions of words ("criminal", "right", "property") as if they were the normal, uncontroversial, widely accepted definitions, and then just claiming that your preferred conclusion flows naturally from your definitions. That's rather silly.
And if my luck holds out, I'll own "404" next.
John
This is probably the perfect dream of the *IAA. By diluting access to the real key, it will make it more difficult to locate. They didn't have to do a thing. We did it to ourselves.
Microsoft Sucks, F/OSS Rocks. I get mod points now right?
Reading through this topic made me feel like I was watching some bizarre geek bukkake film. I just feel bad for whoever that is at the center covered by the result of all of you mentally masturbating so furiously.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
D'oh!
No matter. The first 15 characters are enough for me to prove that you thought about circumventing DRM and if the last six years are any guide, then within two years simply thinking about how to circumvent DRM will be a crime.
If /.ers were to create 100 million unique 128-bit keys per second, it would take 1.078x10^23 years (about 7.7 trillion times the age of the universe) to exhaust the 128-bit keyspace. This suggests that giving some kind of legal protection over every single key actually generated might not be harmful public policy. Sure, eventually many of those numbers would have ASCII/UNICODE/etc. meanings such as "free speech good" (128 bits in ASCII), but protection for a number as part of a copyright access control technology does not imply that the creator of the number has any rights over those who have re-created the same number by coincidence. The AACS key might exist out there as part of an audio encoding, image, or movie file. But the AACS has not been trying to stamp out the remote possibility of coincidental use of this number. The only use that they have gone after has been use of the number as a key that is part of a copyright access control technology.
If you don't like laws that protect copyright access control technologies, it is best to develop policy arguments against such laws. Gimicks like creating 128-bit numbers that others can "own" don't prove much of anything.
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The direct implication of what I've said is that leftism is completely immoral, you are way way off.
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It's not the number - it's the context of the number. Yes, I can use this number for my WEP key. I can print it on my T-shirt, print it on toilet paper and wipe my ass with it. I can do whatever you want with this number so long as I don't identify it as the decryption key for YOUR encrypted data.
Here's another example: A tennis racket. By itself, a tennis racket is made for whacking tennis balls. However, I could whack YOU with the racket, and suddenly its role changes from "sporting equipment" to "deadly weapon". But it's the same piece of equipment, and yes, a tennis racket is a plenty good enough weapon to kill somebody with.
It's not the racket itself that's deadly, it's the context for how its used or presented. There's a world of difference between "I'm going to whack the ball" and "I'm going to whack your balls"...
By publishing this number along with phrases like "decryption key for NNN", you've crossed the line from just some random number to establishing the context of the number as somehow important.
So please, please PLEASE get the point - having and/or publishing a number, any number, isn't illegal. Publishing that this number (instead of the billions/trillions of others like it) is the decryption key for $FOO is what's illegal.
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
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One man's constant is another man's variable.
I'm an insensitive clod you insensitive...
oh wait...
You're using her as bait, Master!
Actually, let's say it's not rot13, but rather, rot128 -- that is, every byte xor'd against 0x80. (I think, I'm a little fuzzy on binary and hex now.) That should make it nice and universal, symmetric, and something easy enough for everyone to know.
.rot13 extension -- so you're not really revealing your key, but everyone knows what you mean -- and distribute it via P2P.
For safety's sake, the following should be done on an encrypted partition, and you should still shred the files afterwards.
Go take your favorite movie (DVD is easy, but high def if you can), rip it -- doesn't matter much how, raw bits would be especially insulting, but re-encode if you like. Take your shiny new DVD rip, add a note saying "Enjoy! And if anyone from the MPAA is reading, HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR DMCA NOW, YOU CUNTS? IT'S ILLEGAL TO READ THIS, I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT!!"
Zip/rar it all up, so it's one file, to make it simple, and run that one file through rot0x80. Save the shiny new crypted file on your hard drive somewhere, maybe give it a
Now, if everyone takes equal care when playing the movie -- and I imagine we could add rot0x80 support to mplayer/vlc, if you only did it on the media file itself -- then while I am not a laywer, I don't see how they could legally get any kind of conviction against you. Simply don't put the "key" in the players, and require the person to input it every time they play -- then, you can claim you didn't know (since the file was legal to redistribute, just not legal to open), and if they accuse you of piracy, you can immediately turn it around and accuse them of DMCA violations.
Not really an original idea, mind you. I can't point to the person who first used it to encrypt The Number, thus making it illegal for the MPAA to stop its spread. But the point here is, legally, I don't see a way out of this unless they subpeona (which is why all the disk encryption), and you can get around that easily enough -- simply use a temporary partition/filesystem, and throw away the key when you're done with that particular disc. In fact, leave the machine on and generate a random number, so you can truthfully say that you never did know the key, meaning they have absolutely no evidence you did something wrong, except the glaringly obvious bit that they're not allowed to use.
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