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MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key

Posted by kdawson on from the hacking-101 dept.

Reader Hanji alerts us to a hack pulled off when Randall Munroe, author of the popular webcomic XKCD, spoke at MIT by invitation of the Lab for Computer Science. MIT hackers dropped hundreds of labelled playpen balls onto the audience from hatches in the ceiling. The labels bore XKCD's logo as well as the recently discovered 16-byte AACS processing key. At another point in Munroe's talk he was stalked by remote-controlled mechanical velociraptors; but fortunately he had been supplied with a squirt gun full of grape juice.

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  1. thats better than by evwah · · Score: 5, Funny

    thats better than being stalked by remotely controlled mechanical MPAA lawyers

    1. Re:thats better than by Kryptonian+Jor-El · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can you imagine the cease and desist letter from the MPAA?
      "We demand that all AACS keys are removed from all PLAYGROUND BALLS immediately and no legal action will follow"

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    2. Re:thats better than by flyingfsck · · Score: 4, Funny

      Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball!

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  2. Americans demand tougher sentencing for hackers!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ask a liberal to define the word "hacker" and he would probably give you a rose-tinted answer. To the liberal, a hacker is a harmless tinkerer. It's unlikely that a FBI agent would agree; nor would anybody who has to commute by air, drive a car, raise a family or pay their taxes.
    All sensible patriots should demand that these atheist hackers are sent to prison. (At the very least, they are suspicious and should be reported to the FBI for going to a "technology" college instead of Bob Jones University!!). I have a modest proposal to go further than the sober ideas presented in that beatiful and well researched article: those who have inflicted cyberterrorism on our great nation by illegally watching HDDVDS should be given the death penalty. This is the only way we can live through these troublesome times, when the rapture is near, without losing to inferior and dangerous communist computing products.
  3. one of my favs, by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/c202.html

  4. So that's what Randall Munroe looks like by daranz · · Score: 5, Funny

    For some reason, I expected him to be really thin, and wearing a black hat.

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  5. tags: encryption, humour by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    how odd we don't see the two tags together more often

    1. Re:tags: encryption, humour by natrius · · Score: 4, Funny

      You don't see them because the humor tag is usually encrypted in another one, like "itsatrap".