Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In the words of Bruce Sterling, this is encryption that God himself couldn't break: once you've run out of DVD, which should take a month or so, toss it on the fire and that's that. Oh, and encryption.
[December 19, 2003, 16:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
ACCS Is Not 'Technically" cracked
Talkback Although it appears that 'muslix64' has developed a work around via key or volume information on HD-DVD the medias continuing rant that the encryption is 'cracked/hacked' is misleading. It is by no means (yet) as significant as the DeCss crack was...
About: Next-generation DVD encryption 'cracked'
[December 29, 2006, 11:03 by WarriorPoet]
Piracy in the Clouds
Blog But she copies the file from the DVD straight to the cloud no encryption or hashing at all. From there he can make copies on demand if desired or point mass DVD duplicators through an IP connection to the cloud source of the pirated master copy.
[December 1, 2008, 7:44 in Home Server Projects by Xwindowsjunkie]
UK gets tough on music swappers
Talkback If the major electronics industry want to sell cds /dvds with useless encryption then maybe a rethink on their part is needed. Sony EMI sell music CDs and Film DVDs, but the user can copy that music or DVD movie to their hard drives and therefore...
About: UK gets tough on music swappers
[March 15, 2005, 21:08]
Naked PCs
Talkback If I have bought a DVD and I want to put it on a media server for my own home, I should be able to, DRM doesn't work and never will, it's simple you can always read bits of a media and all encryption is crackable given time.distributed computing...
About: Users split over naked PCs
[October 2, 2007, 12:32 by 1000272134]
An interesting sales tactic
Blog Most recently, it's been used to very good effect to prevent absolutely the distribution of the 128-bit encryption key at the heart of the AACS HD-DVD system. As a committed, engaged and interested member of the digital community, you'll know all...
[May 11, 2007, 9:43 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
Talkback I heard about Vista requiring a monitor with HDMI (with DRM encryption) to fully utilize the graphics, if you don't have the approved newer DRM HDMI connection then the graphics get dumbed down (is this still true, or internet hype ?
About: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
[November 12, 2005, 7:44]
Is Microsoft going to Violate the Military Secrets Export Laws ?
Blog Crackers the world over are going to rise to the challenge to crack the encryption used on the image. The computer world will be flooded with pirated copies of Win7 Ultimate in weeks or months after the release date depending on how good Microsoft...
[February 4, 2009, 12:20 in Vista Upgrade Blog by Xwindowsjunkie]
Increase awareness of the control and management of usb devices.
Talkback Lumension has now provided an implementation of its Device Control solution - Lumension Device Control for System Center (DCSC) -whereby Microsoft customers can now leverage Configuration Manager 2007’s powerful centralised management capabilities...
About: Microsoft boosts Windows 7 security for USB drives
[May 5, 2009, 9:47 by lumension]
Pushing water uphill
Talkback We have now had 3 different, mid-range, name brand DVD players and none of them will play more than half of my DVDs. The movie moguls and such keep making big big noises about how poor they are and how these nasty hackers are making them poorer...
About: Next-generation DVD encryption 'cracked'
[January 3, 2007, 12:41 by Andrew Meredith]
GhostSurf 2005 Platinum
Member Review Anonymous encryption levels that allow you to customize them above and beyond! A wide variety of sophisticated encryption levels and encryption twists, using: Blocks 'personal information' in GhostSurf 'encrypted storage vaults', and allows...
[October 26, 2004, 20:47]
Er..sorry...I meant AACS not ACSS
Talkback Damn the typos!
About: Next-generation DVD encryption 'cracked'
[December 29, 2006, 11:07 by WarriorPoet]
Red Rag: Bull
Talkback As soon as someone puts up "uncrackable" code up for grabs there is a certain section of society that will see fit to prove them wrong. There is a certain mindset that sees this as a challenge and will rise to the challenge as if it were the most...
About: Next-generation DVD encryption 'cracked'
[January 2, 2007, 10:09 by John Molloy]
RE: BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment It makes no difference what equipment you use - whether it’s a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD recorder or a TV set - you still need a licence. "You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as...
[September 22, 2009, 0:13 by CA]
RE: BBC HD Freeview encryption confusion
Blog Comment It makes no difference what equipment you use - whether it’s a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD recorder or a TV set - you still need a licence. @CA: Point of fact: if you don't have a device to receive broadcast signals, you don't need a...
[September 21, 2009, 10:09 by manek]
