[geeks] encrypted video cable?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:37:10PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> You'll also see that some hackers have already broken it, because at
> some point the hardware *must* have an unencrypted data stream.
> 
> They just soldered small leads to the encryption ASICs output and
> recorded that.

Of course, the next move in HDCP (or whatever follows it) would be to
require that the system be tamper proof to prevent that.  Nasty, nasty,
nasty, but that is what they are trying to push in DCinima systems these
days. 
 
> Average Joe won't want to do that, but all of the pirates will.

All the pirates will?  I suspect most "pirates" will download from the
net and pass it on, and that only an extremely small minority will
actually do it.
 
> Result: yet another system that only punishes legitimate users.

Nobody is debating whether it punishes legitimate users.  The only
debate is whether it is the HDMI cable at fault, or if it might perhaps
be the optional HDCP protocol that optionally rides on top of HDMI.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd
jdboyd at jdboyd.net
http://www.jdboyd.net/
http://www.joshuaboyd.org/