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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by i0exception on Monday November 26, 2012 @07:30PM (#4834840)
Anyone who has taken Computer Security 101 would know that security through obscurity is not the smartest thing to do. Calling it "near-ridiculous level of security." is downright blasphemy.
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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by marssaxman on Monday November 26, 2012 @08:13PM (#4834993)
Blasphemy? Sounds like nothing more than the simple truth. If anything, they're being too humble. It literally is a ridiculous level of security, for here we all are ridiculing it.
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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by asherlangton on Monday November 26, 2012 @07:38PM (#4834867)
Or just (unintentional) truth in marketing...
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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by esrauch on Monday November 26, 2012 @09:15PM (#4835281)
Except that these videos are playing on your local machine. With the most advanced DRM mechanism possible it is nearly as trivial to simply record the video output.

There is no reason to spend developer time making a complex mechanism that is no more secure than a simple xor.

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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by coin on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @02:49AM (#4836118)
Recording the output is not the same as extracting the DRM-free stream
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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by esrauch on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:17PM (#4850900)
This is educational content not blockbuster films. Recording the output in this case would be more than sufficient.
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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by shmerl on Monday November 26, 2012 @08:54PM (#4835216)
The only mistake in that was the word "near". It's purely ridiculous, since that method has nothing to do with security honestly saying.
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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by damian2000 on Monday November 26, 2012 @08:11PM (#4834984)
I wouldn't even call it security through obscurity. I'd call it dumb as rocks security.
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Re:Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XO... by 4ngle on Monday November 26, 2012 @07:39PM (#4834869)
Not to mention, a foolhardy challenge to break it.
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