Blue-Ray and lack of copy protection! « {patrickrice.net blog}

Blue-Ray and lack of copy protection!

So Blue-Ray has now been hacked, but you will need a bit of hardware to do it. A few PHD students in Germany have managed to put a few chips together for about €200 and you can now get past the copy protection using a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack to crack the copy protection system used by HDMI ports with relatively little effort.

more here http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Researchers-conduct-successful-MITM-attack-on-HDCP-copy-protection-1384543.html

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