SDMI cracked

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From: Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 02:38:12 PDT


This from Salon.

Dunno if its true or not, but watermarking is such a load of garbage
that I wouldn't be in the least surprised.

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SDMI cracked!
Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted
music protection system.

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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.
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  http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/12/sdmi_hacked/index.html

Rob.


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