Nomen Nescio wrote: > Ben Laurie wrote: > >>Albion Zeglin wrote: >> >>>Similar to DeCSS, only one Palladium chip needs to be reverse engineered and >>>it's key(s) broken to virtualize the machine. >> >>If you break one machine's key: >> >>a) You won't need to virtualise it >> >>b) It won't be getting any new software licensed to it > > > This is true, if you do like DeCSS and try to publish software with the > key in it. The content consortium will put the cert for that key onto > a CRL, and the key will stop working. > > The other possibility is to simply keep the key secret and use it to strip > DRM protection from content, then release the now-free data publicly. > This will work especially well if the companies offer free downloads of > content with some kind of restrictions that you can strip off. If you > have to pay for each download before you can release it for free, then > you better be a pretty generous guy. > > Or maybe you can get paid for your efforts. This could be the true > killer app for anonymous e-cash.
Heh. Cool! Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
