New AACS cracks cannot be revoked, says hacker
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| Despite the technical difficulty of performing this hack, it does
| offer some advantages in the race to beat AACS copy protection.
| "They cannot revoke this hack," said forum member arnezami, who
| has been at the center of much of the AACS cracking recently. "No
| matter how many Private Host Keys they revoke we will still bea
| ble to get Volume IDs using patched xbox 360 HD DVD drives."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070415-aacs-cracks-cannot-be-revoked-says-hacker.html
Also on hacking:
Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity?
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| "...I know at the time I was going to school there, I was punished for
| using a Linux LiveCD to login to their computers without using a
| password, even after I told the admins how to disable booting from
| CD-ROMs. They refused to update any of the computers and as such I
| was using the same tactic till the day I graduated."
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http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/03/1751252&from=rss
Related:
User revolt forces Digg copyright retreat
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| The decision by Digg.com, a ?Web 2.0? site that relies on users to
| act as editors of news stories, came after users rebelled by voting
| for stories featuring a 32-digit key that can be used to hack
| HD-DVD copy protection.
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| [...]
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| AACS, whose founders include Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Walt Disney,
| declined to comment.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/08b10610-f8cd-11db-a940-000b5df10621.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD
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