Posted by Howard on 12/23/46 11:27

"Joshua Zyber" <jzyber@mind-NOSPAM-spring.com> wrote in news:mO2Ze.2991
$vw6.2082@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:

> "Howard" <stile99@email.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns96DAC3A2C1D14stile@129.250.170.82...
>> Correction: The boxes must be made to believe they are connected to
>> the
>> internet.
>>
>> Assuming the first device is released at 12:01am January 1st, 2006,
>> then
>> the first device to bypass this stupidity will be released at
>> 12:01:01am,
>> January 1st, 2006.
>
> How do you figure that? It's not like just connecting it to "the
> internet" is all that's needed. The player must establish a connection
> with an official Blu-Ray server and receive a valid authorization code
> before it will function. Somehow, I think it's going to take a hacker
> longer than 1 second to crack it.

I repeat. It only has to be made to THINK it has received a valid
authorization code. If you honestly think this is difficult, you need to
pay a little closer attention to history. In general terms, the first
'crack' on satellite dishes (the big things, long before the little pizza
things came along) was to make the box 'think' it had gotten the correct
code. Again, in simple terms, the box asked a question, and if the answer
was yes, you got your programming. So the hack was to make the answer
always equal yes. When this was corrected, the second hack came just as
quickly. Ignore the question, ignore the answer, just make the box think
it had already gone through the challenge and is now at the desired result.
Effectively, the answer was again always yes, because the question part was
bypassed entirely. This was more effective, because the question did not
matter, nor did the answer it was looking for. Yes, no, 42,
purple...whatever this week's code was, as far as your box was concerned,
you already had it.

In the decades since then, technology has changed and ALWAYS been beaten.
And in very general terms, it all comes down to the same thing. You don't
need to crack the code...just make the box think you have. The regular,
honest user has always suffered and been treated like a criminal, when he's
the only one breaking the rules...it's the hacker who is illegally
bypassing the locks. Of course, these locks on fair use are illegal in the
first place. Look up "Mexican standoff". Clearly, it's the guy in the
middle that gets the brunt of it, while both sides remain unchanged.

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