Richard's Kingdom

Further to what I said here, I’d like to add the following to the discussion on whether AACS is broken beyond repair
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
Once again, that is all.
[1/6/07 - Edited to add] BoingBoing has the scoop on the unusual way this new [...]

The EU has voted to cap charges for using mobile phones while abroad in Europe, but the measure only applies to voice calls. The cost of roaming text messages and data will remain extortionate.
Cost reductions for the consumer are predicted, but I suspect that in such a competitive market, providers will simply increase charges elsewhere [...]

Are your children being harmed at school because invisible Wi-Fi radiation is frying their brains?
It’s an arresting question, and media outlets as large as the Independent and the BBC have been asking it in recent weeks, however the answer is “no they’re not”. Here’s why:

Wi-Fi transmissions are hundreds of times lower than the World Health [...]

In mid February, AACS, a DRM scheme used to encrypt data on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks, was cracked wide open by Arnezami, a hacker posting at the doom9 forums.
Now the MPAA are abusing US copyright law to try to remove all references to the HD-DVD processing key – published by Arnezami – from the web.
In [...]

Do you avoid putting personal information online because you can’t control how it’s viewed or used once you’ve hit “post”?
Your old Myspace profile might prove difficult to explain in a job interview, but recent evidence suggests it could actually stop you getting that far. Worse: as your name is almost certainly not unique, a case [...]