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 Security Hype 7.8-Bob Relyea AACS Part 2: Practical implications of key compromises [16:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2245)

Bill and Bob wrap up their interview with Bob Relyea who describes the practical implications to the AACS key compromise.

Bill recounts the story of the satellite pirates who were locked out by DirecTV in the middle of the Superbowl, sometimes called “Black Sunday”. DirecTV had been slowly downloading a pirate detection and lockout routine, byte by byte, over the course of a few weeks. When activated, this routine disabled the hacked cards. So anti-pirate measures can be quite affective, at least in the short term.

We ask Bob Relyea a number of questions about the AACS crack, and whether or not it’s a big deal. Is AACS really better than the old CSS system? We explore the issue of using well-known crypto standards, and if the content protection people learned from their CSS mistakes. We also talk about what steps we might see the studios take.

Here’s a good Wired article: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/02/the_new_hddvdbl.html

There are loads of other sites on the web. Search for “09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0” or “09 F9 key”.

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