[attrition] AACS vows to fight people who publish the key

[security curmudgeon]

Courtesy of Infowarrior. As a responsible net citizen, I sincerely 
encourage all of our readers to respect the AACS and do not further 
distribute the magic numbers / key. It is only up on 802,000 web sites so 
far, if we stop pasting this around, they have a real shot at keeping the 
number quiet!

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AACS vows to fight people who publish the key

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Michael Ayers, the chairman of the AACS-LA (the organization that sent 
hundreds of legal threats to websites that published the random 16-byte 
number that represented one of the keys for cracking the copy-prevention 
on HD-DVDs) has given an interview to the BBC in which he vows to use 
technical and legal means to shut down the 802,000+ websites that have 
reproduced the key.

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Michael says that this doesn't impact free speech -- that it's possible to 
discuss the crack and DRM in general without reproducing the key. I think 
he's wrong. I just taught a class at USC where we talked about this crack 
as part of our coursework, and part of my lesson was talking about the 
ease with which this information can be retrieved and spread -- and how 
that makes anti-copying systems futile. For my students, seeing just how 
little information was needed to undo the AACS scheme was critical to 
understanding its fragility. Indeed, one of my students posted this key to 
the class blog to show his fellow students how trivial this was, prompting 
AACS to threaten me with legal action as well.

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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/04/aacs_vows_to_fight_p.html

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