dan@Reykjavik:~/Desktop$/Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime\ Player pwnage.qtl
sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
If we look at your output we see that the exploit seems to be valid since it claims to start sh, but I think that their "proof of concept" is flawed.
So, I guess that they rushed the code for the demonstration.
If you would've actually UTFA (used the.... application ) for more than 5 mins you probably would've stumbled upon that feature. It's there, I promise, but now it's/.:ed so I can't tell the exact buttons to press.
I just have to brag a bit here, recently one of the major swedish broadband providers announced a new service, called Scream!. Up to 26 Mbits in both directions for about 50$ / month, including your own IP number..
As far as I've understood from my conversation with them, it won't be illegal to gererally break cryptos, that's not the thing. So, you can still do what you do without problems.
The thing that will be illegal is to break a crypto on a product, in order to make an illegal copy of it. That's all.
It won't actually be as dreadful as the DMCA, since it will only be illegal to break a copyright protection system if you're going to make a copy, it won't be illegal to circumvent it to use it as it's meant to be used. I.e. watching a DVD movie on your linux computer using DeCSS to "break" the crypto won't be illegal.
Neither will these redicilous "region codes" be protected, they can still be legally circumvented.
Further, it won't be illegal to break the copyright protection system on these new "CD's", if you're only going to play them in your computer.
If anyone has any questions regarding this, just send them a well written e-mail, since they're very helpful and will answer all of your questions quite fast. (a few hours for mine)
-L
What I really hope is that someone cracks it, but doesn't release the info on it until the DRM-system has been widely adopted. Then it would cause a much bigger havoc than if the info was released now.
You forget one quite important thing, and that's the fact that in order to find what you're looking for, you have to know what you're looking for. This is where the librarians are a great asset, and this is probably where they won't be replaced with algorithms, at least not within the nearest 50 years.
A way to get rid of all of the spam.
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Why not make a new protocol to replace SMTP? A protocol that requiers som sort of authentication between the sending server and the recieving one.
It could be done if you add a new type of record to the DNS protocol (using the existing MX record isn't good since not all people want to have their outgoing mailservers clogged by incoming mail), "SMX" (sending mail exchanger or whatever.
So that if I want to send an e-mail, my SMTP server has to be listed in the domainfile.
This, with the addition of domain "whitelists" that contains all of the domains that has not sent spam could make it _very_ much harder for the spammers to get their buissness running.
Sorry for the sloppy english.
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7: is just a threat, even tho it's an extreme one.
9: is a collision that is going to happen and that will devastate a region.
You're not very bright are you. The light from the city that troubles the astronomers is not the lite from the actual light sources, but the light that's reflected from the atmosphere. And that light can't really be avoided (unless you climb up a really high mountain etc.).
So, climb up from your well and go back to school.
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If you would've actually UTFA (used the .... application ) for more than 5 mins you probably would've stumbled upon that feature. It's there, I promise, but now it's /.:ed so I can't tell the exact buttons to press.
I just have to brag a bit here, recently one of the major swedish broadband providers announced a new service, called Scream!. Up to 26 Mbits in both directions for about 50$ / month, including your own IP number..
As far as I've understood from my conversation with them, it won't be illegal to gererally break cryptos, that's not the thing. So, you can still do what you do without problems.
The thing that will be illegal is to break a crypto on a product, in order to make an illegal copy of it. That's all.
Asking them to clarify a few things.
It won't actually be as dreadful as the DMCA, since it will only be illegal to break a copyright protection system if you're going to make a copy, it won't be illegal to circumvent it to use it as it's meant to be used. I.e. watching a DVD movie on your linux computer using DeCSS to "break" the crypto won't be illegal.
Neither will these redicilous "region codes" be protected, they can still be legally circumvented.
Further, it won't be illegal to break the copyright protection system on these new "CD's", if you're only going to play them in your computer.
If anyone has any questions regarding this, just send them a well written e-mail, since they're very helpful and will answer all of your questions quite fast. (a few hours for mine) -L
What I really hope is that someone cracks it, but doesn't release the info on it until the DRM-system has been widely adopted. Then it would cause a much bigger havoc than if the info was released now.
You forget one quite important thing, and that's the fact that in order to find what you're looking for, you have to know what you're looking for. This is where the librarians are a great asset, and this is probably where they won't be replaced with algorithms, at least not within the nearest 50 years.
Why not make a new protocol to replace SMTP? A protocol that requiers som sort of authentication between the sending server and the recieving one.
It could be done if you add a new type of record to the DNS protocol (using the existing MX record isn't good since not all people want to have their outgoing mailservers clogged by incoming mail), "SMX" (sending mail exchanger or whatever. So that if I want to send an e-mail, my SMTP server has to be listed in the domainfile.
This, with the addition of domain "whitelists" that contains all of the domains that has not sent spam could make it _very_ much harder for the spammers to get their buissness running.
Sorry for the sloppy english.
7: is just a threat, even tho it's an extreme one. 9: is a collision that is going to happen and that will devastate a region.
Maybe I should go back to school too, so that I learn how to spell. :-P
You're not very bright are you. The light from the city that troubles the astronomers is not the lite from the actual light sources, but the light that's reflected from the atmosphere. And that light can't really be avoided (unless you climb up a really high mountain etc.). So, climb up from your well and go back to school.
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But they're not worth more than my £0.02. ;-)