Good lord. We're supposed to be geeks here, right? Let's do the math on this.
The Xbox uses a keyspace of 2^2048. So far, the project has manage to do a little over 17 billion keys, call it 2^34 keys. That means, they have managed to test roughly fuck all. If Microsoft sent a negative result back for the actual key, the chances are higher that a couple of inopportune cosmic rays would change the result to positive, than they are that these guys are going to test even 3*(fuck all), before people figure out that the method is hopeless. Vague mumblings on their site about "a chaos thing" does not make brute force search in that sort of keyspace any less hopeless.
You can make $10,000 by solving a problem that's 1/(2^1472) as difficult by cracking RSA-576. Why are we paying attention to these guys?
Can someone spend more than 10 secs looking at story submissions to make sure that they're not just (very) thinly disguised ads? That'd be quite an improvement!! Can't wait to get my hands on it!
Please do NOT submit this question to the victim, it's a trivial one for a flak to handle. The tactic that will be used to counter this argument is the one IBM is taking with their laptop line. You know the commercial, where they find many serious looking people in suits to act panicked about confidential customer data. "The more security you can build into it, the better." "I want 5 pounds of security in my next laptop."
A better question might be: Will you be honest about what these restrictions are actually for, once you've foisted them off on your customers?
Check your paycheck. If you see a deduction for Social Security, then you're a clone. Consider the following facts, which hold true in the US:
1) There is already a propaganda campaign underway to prepare people of your generation that you won't see any of your SSec income.
2) At a 6-7% percent deduction rate, a Real You only needs 16 clones to reap your full salary. Amway was founded by a clone who figured out this trick.
3) According to the CIA world factbook, the USA has 9.1 million square kilometers of land area. That means that each of the 16 copies has roughly 0.5 million square kilometers to wander about in. You'll never find them. (Note that this only counts the land mass of the states. Greedy Real People can squirrel away a few extra clones in Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands for a higher rate of return.)
Does this smell slightly political? Posting in high quality VOB format (DVD encoding, no?) when a smaller/lower quality compression would clearly be more appropriate makes it look like some foundation is being laid. "Look Your Honor, all these nice open source hippies use DVD video to freely distribute their videos! And on Linux!"
Mind you, I don't disagree with the sentiment, but it seems kind of silly to try and sneak this in the back door.
Setting up a sniffer wouldn't be covered under the DMCA, since the _packets_ aren't copyrighted material, just the code and the exe.
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Besides, the proposed penalties lack the element of poetic justice. $500 per infringing email? How about locking a spammer in a dark room with no food or water until they copy out longhand each ad? Including mail headers, of course.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.) (Flameshield: I don't agree with this scheme)
You have a right to make an archival copy of media you have purchased, but the company probably isn't legally infringing on your rights if they don't make it easy for you. They would simply be on shaky legal ground if they came after you for hacking around their scheme.
Does all this copy-protection nonsense remind anyone else of the (probably apocryphal) story of an early multi-user system that was having problems with users finding ways to crash the system? After months of plugging the holes, the sysadmins finally just created a 777 program "crash" that would bring down the system. Problem solved: no one wanted to try to crash the system anymore.
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Good lord. We're supposed to be geeks here, right? Let's do the math on this.
The Xbox uses a keyspace of 2^2048. So far, the project has manage to do a little over 17 billion keys, call it 2^34 keys. That means, they have managed to test roughly fuck all. If Microsoft sent a negative result back for the actual key, the chances are higher that a couple of inopportune cosmic rays would change the result to positive, than they are that these guys are going to test even 3*(fuck all), before people figure out that the method is hopeless. Vague mumblings on their site about "a chaos thing" does not make brute force search in that sort of keyspace any less hopeless.
You can make $10,000 by solving a problem that's 1/(2^1472) as difficult by cracking RSA-576. Why are we paying attention to these guys?
Can someone spend more than 10 secs looking at story submissions to make sure that they're not just (very) thinly disguised ads? That'd be quite an improvement!! Can't wait to get my hands on it!
Please do NOT submit this question to the victim, it's a trivial one for a flak to handle. The tactic that will be used to counter this argument is the one IBM is taking with their laptop line. You know the commercial, where they find many serious looking people in suits to act panicked about confidential customer data. "The more security you can build into it, the better." "I want 5 pounds of security in my next laptop."
A better question might be: Will you be honest about what these restrictions are actually for, once you've foisted them off on your customers?
Check your paycheck. If you see a deduction for Social Security, then you're a clone. Consider the following facts, which hold true in the US:
1) There is already a propaganda campaign underway to prepare people of your generation that you won't see any of your SSec income.
2) At a 6-7% percent deduction rate, a Real You only needs 16 clones to reap your full salary. Amway was founded by a clone who figured out this trick.
3) According to the CIA world factbook, the USA has 9.1 million square kilometers of land area. That means that each of the 16 copies has roughly 0.5 million square kilometers to wander about in. You'll never find them. (Note that this only counts the land mass of the states. Greedy Real People can squirrel away a few extra clones in Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands for a higher rate of return.)
Just a thought...
...dave
Mind you, I don't disagree with the sentiment, but it seems kind of silly to try and sneak this in the back door.
Then again, I could be just crazy.
Setting up a sniffer wouldn't be covered under the DMCA, since the _packets_ aren't copyrighted material, just the code and the exe.
Besides, the proposed penalties lack the element of poetic justice. $500 per infringing email? How about locking a spammer in a dark room with no food or water until they copy out longhand each ad? Including mail headers, of course.
...dave
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.)
(Flameshield: I don't agree with this scheme)
You have a right to make an archival copy of media you have purchased, but the company probably isn't legally infringing on your rights if they don't make it easy for you. They would simply be on shaky legal ground if they came after you for hacking around their scheme.
Does all this copy-protection nonsense remind anyone else of the (probably apocryphal) story of an early multi-user system that was having problems with users finding ways to crash the system? After months of plugging the holes, the sysadmins finally just created a 777 program "crash" that would bring down the system. Problem solved: no one wanted to try to crash the system anymore.
by having L. Ron and Arthur C. in the same sentence?