That is what SSL is for--to verify the authenicity of some random entity and communicate securely over an insecure network, even in the case of the man-in-the-middle attack.
Read up on public key infrastructure on wikipedia for more info.
This is easily beatable since because you can play the music in a regular cd player, it must be in an unencrypted format on the disk. From the story:
Gilliat-Smith says the discs are compliant with Sony Philips CD specifications and should therefore play in all conventional CD players
However, their stated goal is to prevent casual (read "non-technical") users from copying CDs into a free format. So it probably is some auto-run program and/or the data on the disc doesn't match the iso spec so it confuses pc cdrom drives.
It will accomplish this goal, but this idea won't stem piracy.
It's an ill-conceived plan sold by a startup that probably knows it won't work to an industry thats grasping for straws. It will force casual users to start learning how to use P2P, which will cause the problem to snowball.
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Read up on public key infrastructure on wikipedia for more info.
But, er, Jack didn't give away any money. Gabe and Tycho just donated the money in his name.
And the final -10% are often miscalculated, anyway.
Please tell me what this is... I can't find it online and I'm dying for a new gaming fix.
You can't make the same game 7 times in a row without it getting boring after awhile.
"Method of providing a plot deviation in a written work by adding the idea or description of a butler wielding a murder weapon"
Gilliat-Smith says the discs are compliant with Sony Philips CD specifications and should therefore play in all conventional CD players
However, their stated goal is to prevent casual (read "non-technical") users from copying CDs into a free format. So it probably is some auto-run program and/or the data on the disc doesn't match the iso spec so it confuses pc cdrom drives.
It will accomplish this goal, but this idea won't stem piracy. It's an ill-conceived plan sold by a startup that probably knows it won't work to an industry thats grasping for straws. It will force casual users to start learning how to use P2P, which will cause the problem to snowball.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
Here is the main site...
They already have it. http://rainx.com/frame_auto_glass.htm
Works well in water, not well in alcoholic drinks. I wouldn't drink the stuff...
Like the above poster said, blocking incoming UDP would be enough to prevent the infected computer from acting as a P2P node.
exactly what I was thinking...
But if you can simply ask the "protected box" to decode the data over your "trusted low level protocol", why not just ask it to decode everything?
If it's aliased from exe to mp3, I don't think it would run. It would try to open it as an mp3 file then.