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- Grand Pooh-Bah
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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.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... acker.html
Individual device keys can be revoked, but this is a global secret.
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- Tenth Dan Procrastinator
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That's about as good and concise a summary of the whole silliness of DRM as I've seen.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.