[13078] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: the futility of DRM (Re: DMCA Crypto Software)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Tue Apr 22 18:50:29 2003
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To: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, adam@cypherspace.org
From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:34:56 +0000
In-Reply-To: <9eb13352385b1c3ff100e734f5023438@dizum.com> (Nomen Nescio's
message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2003 01:30:02 +0200 (CEST)")
Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> writes:
> Their system allows things like DVDs to be pressed, distributed,
> sit on shelves, and finally sold, all identical, and to create the
> player-specific watermarks on the fly.
In which case a pirate would of course attack the raw bits on the
disk. Might need some reverse engineering of the drive, though. A
class II attacker could even write a new controller software from
scratch, controlling servos and laser directly.
Andreas
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