Mohtalim

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2007 5:28 pm**

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/01/1935250

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2007 5:47 pm**

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39330

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2007 11:12 pm**

Will they change the key? Can they change it at this point?

Posted: **Wed May 02, 2007 11:20 pm**

I don't understand their encryption well enough to say, but my guess is for a global secret key they are probably screwed. Too much hardware already out there that expects this.

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 12:23 am**

I am told it is broken for realz.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... acker.html

Individual device keys can be revoked, but this is a global secret.

Posted: **Thu May 03, 2007 6:56 pm**

The real problem with trying to create an "uncrackable" copy protection is that the media must come with the keys used to decrypt it somewhere on the device and the media itself. Hiding these keys in different places—security by obscurity—merely delays the inevitable. Of course, for the content providers, any delay is still better than no delay at all, so expect the battles between copy protection and hackers to continue.

That's about as good and concise a summary of the whole silliness of DRM as I've seen.

Mohtalim

Heh

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