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[FYI] SDMI cracked.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Axel H Horns)
Sun Oct 15 15:45:53 2000
From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 20:56:21 +0200
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http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/12/sdmi_hacked/index.html
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SDMI cracked!
Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection
system.
By Janelle Brown
Oct. 12, 2000 | Watch out -- recording industry executives are about
to start running for cover. All of the Secure Digital Music
Initiative's watermarks -- its much ballyhooed music protection
scheme -- have been broken. A spokesperson for SDMI has denied the
reports, but according to three off-the-record sources, the results
of the Hack SDMI contest are in and not one single watermark resisted
attack.
[...]
Is there an alternate solution, though? Many SDMI members think there
isn't one -- and that this could mean that SDMI will now implode for
lack of any plausible ideas for how to meet the recording industry's
demands for secure music.
[...]
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