Ok, so we cannot dole out the source code because:
"No person shall . . . offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology . . . that--- " etc. etc. etc.
BUT, notice what they say about program comments:
29 Defendants asserted at oral argument that DeCSS, or some versions of it, contain programmer's comments, "which are non-executable appendages to lines of executable code.'' Tradescape.com v. Shivaram, No. 99 Civ. 8990 (LAK), 1999 WL 1102767, *8 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 7, 1999). Such comments are protected by the First Amendment. Plaintiffs, however, have disclaimed any effort to restrain dissemination of programmer comments as distinguished from executable code.
If I read this right, we can give out comments, but not executable code.....so how about pseudocode??? Then everyone with a brain and a C compiler can crank out their own DeCSS and everyone's happy!! (Although I'm sure the MPAA will bitch and moan about this one too.)
Any Idiot can simply pound away at the keyboard to produce a random alpha-num, the trick is remembering it for several different accounts, and changing it LOTS. I like to use what I call 'symbolized acronyms'. For instance: if your favorite novel is Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash' you could 'achronize' the title/author to produce 'NS SC' which, of course, sucks for a password. However, if we then 'symbolize' it: i.e. 'snow' sometime looks like a '*' character, toss in a dash or an underline, and a few other appropriate symbols, we get out: 'NS_*Cr@s'. This can be read as (and remembered as ) (N)eal (S)tephenson's (_) (*)Snow (Cr@s) Crash.
Scads of titles can be converted in this way. Robert A. Heinlein's 'The Number of the Beast' converts nicely to 'RaH#B'; intersperse a quick 666 to get '6RaH6#B6' etc. etc. ad nauseum. As one can tell, these look awfully like random keyboard pounding, but are much easier to remember. If someone really tries though, one could make a password-cracker specifically for this algorithm, but it would take some serious effort to do. --
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BUT, notice what they say about program comments: If I read this right, we can give out comments, but not executable code.....so how about pseudocode??? Then everyone with a brain and a C compiler can crank out their own DeCSS and everyone's happy!! (Although I'm sure the MPAA will bitch and moan about this one too.)
Scads of titles can be converted in this way. Robert A. Heinlein's 'The Number of the Beast' converts nicely to 'RaH#B'; intersperse a quick 666 to get '6RaH6#B6' etc. etc. ad nauseum. As one can tell, these look awfully like random keyboard pounding, but are much easier to remember. If someone really tries though, one could make a password-cracker specifically for this algorithm, but it would take some serious effort to do.
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"The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions." --Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith"