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Re:Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure by toxik on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:33PM (#28028687)
I don’t understand how it can ever be secure unless you let some DRM representatives basically come and do inspections.

Fundamentally, you are going to show a video and play an audio stream. Fundamentally, it can be recaptured perfectly because it must be displayed and played perfectly. There is simply no way around it. DRM can only make life hard for the regular Joes.

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Re:Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure by codetrotter on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:43PM (#28031350)
> I don’t understand how it can ever be secure unless you let some DRM representatives basically come and do inspections.

Oh god, that’s a level of hell I haven’t even imagined. I wonder if the future could ever become as dystopian as that for real. What it would take for that to happen, and how.

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Re:Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure by Godel_unicode on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:22PM (#28031942)
I see you've never worked with Oracle...
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Re:Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure by Wowfunhappy on Sunday August 01, 2021 @10:25PM (#28032264)
I don't know, but assume, that the movie studios do this for movie theaters.

Seems to work pretty well, since too my knowledge those are only ever leaked by audience members pointing a hidden camera at the screen (with all the quality issues that entails).

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Re:Trying to extract Widewine key: A journey to failure by meowface on Sunday August 01, 2021 @11:10PM (#28032500)
This fundamental gap is known as "the analog hole": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
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