I encourage all of you, in the wake of the AACS encryption scandal, to try to protect your very own 128-bit number.
Here's the background in a nutshell according to boingboing:
"Last week, the AACS consortium made history by issuing legal threats against the 1.8 million web-pages (and counting) that mentioned its secret code for preventing HD-DVD discs from being copied.
In effect, AACS-LA (the AACS Licensing Authority) claimed that it owned a randomly chosen 128-bit number, and that anyone who possessed or transmitted that number was breaking the law. Moreover, it claimed to own millions more random numbers -- claimed that the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which criminalises telling people how to break anti-copying software, gave it exclusive dominion over its many keys"
Monday, May 07, 2007
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Well, we could, but then Fleshbot would just make porn out of it and we'd all feel stupid...or keep sending out cease and desist orders, one of the two.
Hell, it's worth it for both of the things you mentioned.
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