[geeks] Walgreens software, was Quicktime 7 Pro missing stuff?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
" 
" On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 12:55:50PM -0500, Jeff Cole wrote:
" > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:45:17AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
" > > > Made by the same guy who brought you DeCSS :) It'll play everything
" > > > including PAL DVD images without having to install any other codecs. I
" > > > love it, and it runs on any platform you can compile it on.
" > > 
" > > And for all those reasons, some suit is probably trying to have it shut
" > > down and people sued.
" > 
" > Well, good luck with that. The DVD CCA sued hium over DeCSS, but, they
" > dropped their suit in 2004. Turns out that their encryption was so weak,
" > a home computer could brute force it in 24 hours.

iirc it was more like 24 -minutes-.  on a 350MHz p2.

the cca is a textbook example of how -not- to run an encryption
project.

" > I don't remember
" > exactly why the suit was dropped, but, I think it had something to do
" > with the inability of the DVD CCA to prove that he'd actually done
" > anything wrong.
" 
" I thought it was dropped because the principle players and citizens of
" countries that don't have any laws again doing that.  Didn't DeCSS come
" out of Norway?

he clean-room reverse engineered their algorithm.  that shouldn't be
against the law anywhere that claims justice, including the us.  isn't
that how amd does all their cpus?

exporting a program can be illegal, but publishing the algorithm - or
even the source code - isn't, because it's 4th amendment free speech.
they still tried to sue.  go figure.
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