09 F9 11 02
9D 74 E3 5B
D8 41 56 C5
63 56 88 C0
9D 74 E3 5B
D8 41 56 C5
63 56 88 C0
Let's pause to consider how the security model for HD-DVD failed. It failed because (as per Kerchoff's Principle), it was only as secure as the key embedded in every HD-DVD player. That key (which might coincidentally resemble the hexidecimal number I have randomly typed above), once discovered, was distributed ... widely. The structure of secrecy on the modern internet is such that if real demand exists for a secret, and it's as trvially easy to copy as this, then there simply isn't a secret any more. The fact that the demand was created in this case as part of a global, distributed effort to give the AACS-LA the finger after they acted like nimrods only makes it more interesting.
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Meanwhile, via BoingBoing:
"Richard Doherty, well-known CE industry analyst, declared to a trade magazine that the BD+ DRM system about to be rolled out on all Blu Ray discs would not be hacked for 'likely 10 years.'"
Yup. Something like that.
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