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$350 Hardware Cracks HDMI Copy Protection

Posted by Soulskill on from the unbreakable-is-only-motivation dept.

New submitter LBeee writes "German Researchers at the Ruhr University Bochum built an FPGA board-based man-in-the-middle attack against the HDCP copy protection used in HDMI connections. After the leak of an HDCP master key in 2010, Intel proclaimed that the copy protection was still secure, as it would be too expensive to build a system that could conduct a real-time decryption of the data stream. It has now been proven that a system can be built for around $350 (€200) to do the task. However, the solution is of no great practical use for pirates. It can easily be used to burn films from Blu-ray discs, but receivers which can deliver HDTV recordings are already available — and they provide the data in compressed form. In contrast, recording directly from an HDMI port results in a large amount of data."

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  1. And with HDD prices these days... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    recording directly from an HDMI port results in a large amount of data

    With the high prices and todays HDDs, it makes recording from the HDMI even that much more economically unfeasible...

    1. Re:And with HDD prices these days... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because we all know once data has been uncompressed it can never be compressed again...

    2. Re:And with HDD prices these days... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


      I store all my stuff as MD5 hashes. Why keep a 4.5 GB MKV file when it can be hashed down to 16 bytes? That's just stupid. Haven't watched anything yet, waiting for the holidays.

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    3. Re:And with HDD prices these days... by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

      Gonna suck to be you when you find out that there's a collision between "Frosty the Snowman" and "Trans-Midget Scat Sluts XIX"

    4. Re:And with HDD prices these days... by EdIII · · Score: 4, Funny

      Trans-Midget Scat Sluts XIX

      So?

      Frosty was a tosser and Trans-Midget Scat Sluts jumped the shark after the 14th volume.

  2. Re:vapid nonsense by pckl300 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then how, exactly, is anyone supposed to be able to ever watch?

    Isn't the whole point of DRM to prevent you from watching anything?

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