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AACS Revision Cracked A Week Before Release

Posted by Zonk on from the damned-time-traveling-pirates dept.

stevedcc writes "Ars Technica is running a story about next week's release of AACS, which is intended to fix the currently compromised version. The only problem is, the patched version has already been cracked. From the article: 'AACS LA's attempts to stifle dissemination of AACS keys and prevent hackers from compromising new keys are obviously meeting with extremely limited success. The hacker collective continues to adapt to AACS revisions and is demonstrating a capacity to assimilate new volume keys at a rate which truly reveals the futility of resistance. If keys can be compromised before HD DVDs bearing those keys are even released into the wild, one has to question the viability of the entire key revocation model.'"

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  1. Hex or GTFO by aichpvee · · Score: 5, Funny

    The article is missing the key, who's got it? I need to start a protest on digg!

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  2. Bravo.. by modi123 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just gave my dual 21" dell lcds a mountain dew bath after reading "damned-time-traveling-pirates dept". I salute you editors - you have given me my happy thought. Now quickly, fly! Second star to the right and straight on until morning!

  3. AACS? by PineGreen · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the dumbest fucking idea I've heard since I've been at Microsoft.

    1. Re:AACS? by JensenDied · · Score: 4, Funny

      Normally this would be the perfect place for a "You must be new there," comment.

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  4. Re:waste of time by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best response ever to that ad comparing piracy to theft, beginning with "You wouldn't steal a car..." is posted here.

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  5. Re:Does anybody else... by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, exactly, they will think our outmoded techniques were so quaint. Their Reality Rights Management chips installed in every human at birth will simply prevent you from experiencing anything without paying someone for the privilege.

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  6. Activity time! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think it would be fun to generate a big text file listing every possible string of 16 hex digits. We could post and mirror it everywhere, and pre-emptively cause another uproar when yet another of them turns out to be the new AACS key.

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    1. Re:Activity time! by vidarh · · Score: 4, Funny

      16 hex digits is 8 bytes. Good luck trying to post 2^64 16 byte sequences anywhere in your lifetime.

    2. Re:Activity time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ill Start
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
        Lameness filter encountered.

    3. Re:Activity time! by cfulmer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Funny. I just did it. Of course, my file is compressed -- the decompression program takes FOREVER, but it's pretty easy to tell it to skip to the Nth entry.

    4. Re:Activity time! by xx01dk · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sounds like a good time to start another distributed computing project like Seti or the Genome project...

      Anyone?

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  7. Corporate Hypocrisy- It's In The Game! by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn you long-haired smellies! Why can't you get with the program and just passively CONSUME! EA did it! They told me to "Challenge Everything"!

    To which they replied, "Foolish boy, that was just a vapid and insincere corporate slogan designed to sound vaguely cool to wannabe-rebellious (and utterly conformist) 13-year-olds..."

    My mistake.
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    1. Re:Corporate Hypocrisy- It's In The Game! by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Funny

      My mistake.

      Yeah, I thought that was a pretty reasonable response, until Apple told me to think different. Now I can't go back to thinking the old way! I think my mind is broken.

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  8. I have a truly marvellous key of this revision by sectionboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... which this internet is too narrow to contain.

  9. Re:Ten years from now, kids will be reading by danbert8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sad, I read this whole comment and the only thing I'll remember is "actress having sex on the beach".

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  10. Re:waste of time by Dogtanian · · Score: 4, Funny

    There was a great quote by Robe Zombie Is that like a zombie that eats dressing gowns and kimonos?
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  11. Re:waste of time by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best response ever to that ad comparing piracy to theft, beginning with "You wouldn't steal a car..." is posted here.
    Mmm, OK for a one-liner. I prefer to be a bit more creative.
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  12. Re:more like "calls DRM, period, into question." by Minwee · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Somebody at Electric Music Industries Ltd. woke up sober and straight one morning..."

    After having gone to bed the night before drunken and bi-curious?

  13. Re:C64 one more time by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

    True story: When I was a younger lad I got around that by taking my friends manual to the xerox machine at the library and for a couple bucks had the whole thing cracked. Much later on in life I ended up working for the same company I stole the game from. I took my boss out to lunch one day (he was the original programmer on the game in question), and as he offered payment I said "No no, its alright. I figure this ought to cover the royalties of the game I prirated :)" Guilt free am I!

  14. Re:utter fuckpuppets by billcopc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well said. Let's agree that buying pirated DVDs is funding terrorism.

    Actually I just have a gripe with people whose greatest achievement in life is burning a goddamned DVD. I call that a waste of carbon.

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  15. Re:Can you say... by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Up yours" came to my mind, but ymmv.

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  16. Re:Ten years from now, kids will be reading by shish · · Score: 2, Funny

    Even sadder, I skipped the comment, and then went back to it to find out what the "actress having sex on the beach" phrase was talking about :(

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  17. Re:waste of time by aichpvee · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks a lot, jackass! I'd been looking forward to seeing that!

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  18. Re:It's okay... by Odin's+Raven · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to attempt an analogy. This may be horribly flawed [...]

    A Slashdot thread without a flawed analogy is like a frozen fishstick without a train conductor.

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  19. Re:It's okay... by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2, Funny

    My God Man! You sound like stark raving LIBERTARIAN.

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    Welcome!

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