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Own Your Own 128-Bit Integer

Posted by kdawson on Tue May 08, 2007 06:32 PM
from the anyone-can-play dept.
Censorship Math
Byte Swapper writes "After all the fuss over the AACS trying to censor a certain 128-bit number that now has something over two million hits on Google, the folks at Freedom to Tinker would like to point out that you too can own your own integer. They've set up a script that will generate a random number, encrypt a copyrighted haiku with it, and then deed the number back to you. You won't get a copyright on the number or the haiku, but your number has become an illegal circumvention device under the DMCA, such that anyone subject to US law caught distributing it can be punished under the DMCA's anti-trafficking section, for which the DMCA's Safe Harbor provisions do not apply. So F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 is truly mine now, and you can pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
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Rudd-O writes "Months after successful discovery of the HD-DVD processing key, an unprecedented campaign of censorship, in the form of DMCA takedown notices by the MPAA, has hit the Net. For example Spooky Action at a Distance was killed. More disturbingly, my story got Dugg twice, with the second wave hitting 15,500 votes, and today I found out it had simply disappeared from Digg. How long until the long arm of the MPAA gets to my own site (run in Ecuador) and the rest of them holding the processing key? How long will we let rampant censorship go on, in the name of economic interest?" How long before the magic 16-hex-pairs number shows up in a comment here?
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  • That's right, 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA is mine, and I'll be playing it in the Impossiball Lottery twice a week until it pays off. No more Quick Picks for me!

    Remember kids, no one else out there can ever use 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA to play the lotto, to decrypt anything ... or even as a WPA (or WEP) key!

    I'll be googling 5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA everyday until I win that lotto jackpot ... and don't think I won't. I'm crazy enough to do it. I swear I am. Really.

    • Eat it! (Score:5, Funny)

      by Corpuscavernosa (996139) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:36PM (#19044735)
      5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA

      Ha! You'll never catch me coppahs!

      • Re:Eat it! (Score:5, Funny)

        by nattt (568106) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:51PM (#19044973)
        50 AE 9B C2 10 05 0E 52 EB EA 82 B8 FB E7 30 6A

        Don't you just love it!

      • Re:Eat it! (Score:5, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:59PM (#19045111)
        Dear Corpuscavernosa.

        We represent WrongSizeGlass Freedom-To-Tinker Content System Licensing Administrator, WCS LA. WFCS is an integrated set of technological protection measures that controls access to and prevents unauthorized copying of copyrighted Haikus.

        It is our understanding that you are providing to the public the above-identified tools and services, and are thereby providing and offering to the public a technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof that is primarily designed, produced, or marketed for the purpose of circumventing the technological protection measures afforded by WFCS (hereafter, the "circumvention offering"). Doing so constitutes a violation of the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the "DMCA"), 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(2) and 1201(b)(1). Providing or offering the circumvention offering identified above, and any other such offering that is primarily designed or produced to circumvent protection measures, or which has only limited commercial significant purpose other than to circumvent, or which are offered to the public with knowledge that it is for use in circumventing, violates the rights of WCS and any others harmed as well. See 1201(a)(2), 1201(b)(1), and 1203.

        In view of the foregoing apparent anti-circumvention violations, we demand that you immediately:

        1) remove or cause to be removed the above-specified WFCS circumvention offering and any other circumvention offering which is designed, produced or provided to circumvent WFCS or to assist others in doing so, and/or any links directly thereto, and

        2) refrain from posting or causing to be provided any WFCS circumvention offering or from assisting others in doing so, including by direct links thereto, on any website now or at any time in the future.

        Failure to do so will subject you to legal liability.

        Please confirm to the undersigned in writing no later than noon a week from the above-indicated date that you have complied with these demands. You may reach the undersigned by telephone at [private] or by email at [private]@proskauer.com. WCS LA reserves all further rights and remedies with respect to this matter.

        Very truly yours,

        [private]
        Counsel for WFCS LA

      • Re:Eat it! (Score:5, Funny)

        by nbritton (823086) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @07:13PM (#19045313)
        Give that I've run this script on a quantum computer, all your base are belong to me!

        Please send royalty payments to:
        128 Infinite Alley.
        Fort Meade, MD 20755

        Thanks!

    • Personally, I thought it'd be pretty neat to encrypt something using the text of a DMCA takedown notice as a key.
    • That one should pay off pretty quickly :-)

    • no longer naked and petrified (Score:5, Funny)

      by joe_bruin (266648) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @07:17PM (#19045375) Homepage Journal
      hex("natalie portman") = 6e 61 74 61 6c 69 65 20 70 6f 72 74 6d 61 6e 00
      Now she's mine! Those of you who invoke hot grits will be hearing from my lawyer.

  • ok then (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:36PM (#19044733)
    I'll see your F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663C088 and raise you a F9090211749D5BE341D8C5565663D184

  • Why stop there (Score:5, Interesting)

    by HaeMaker (221642) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:42PM (#19044817) Homepage
    Why not create a system where ANY 128bit number can decrypt the haiku. Then you can go after anyone distributing any 128bit number. Say, like using IPv6.

  • The answer (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:43PM (#19044847)
    I'm going to go register "42".

    Then I will own the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

  • Kudos to Heavy Metal Jacket (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:47PM (#19044919)
    97 A5 9D EB B9 9C AD 48 5C 0F 61 3B 51 46 73 30

    This is my 128-bit integer. There are many like it but this one is mine. My 128-bit integer is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my 128-bit integer is useless. Without my 128-bit integer I am useless.

    --
    Above content protected under DMCA, DRM and AACS (as a trade secret) by Johnny F.
    --
    Oh, drat, I spilled the bean.

  • MINE (Score:5, Funny)

    by blhack (921171) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:47PM (#19044923)
    i hereby state copyright over the number 277, which is an expression of duality of the universe (heat/cold good/evil), and the fact all things, including 7, which is lucky,, are better in twos. Any expression of this piece of my work without my express written consent will be prosecuted to the full extent of any applicable laws.

    --UPDATE--

    I have noticed that some pirates have converted this note to a tone, they are calling it C sharp (277hz). My number is to be represented as a digit only, this is obviously an encryption circumvention technique and will not be tolerated. Please fork over 5 trillion dollars and your first born child.

    NOW!

  • My key... (Score:5, Funny)

    by basic0 (182925) <mmccollowNO@SPAMyahoo.ca> on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:53PM (#19045009)
    Here's my copyrighted key:

    "Service Temporarily Unavailable
    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later."

    I'm worried that someone will try to claim prior art though... :S

  • Well, it is a dead end (Score:5, Insightful)

    by gweihir (88907) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:59PM (#19045107)
    Practically every cryptographer will agree that as soon as your secret key is known, it is too late for damage control. The only thing you can do is change the key. Trying to suppress it is entirely futile and a singn of significant stupidity.

    At the same time, you cannot protect numbers. They do not belong to anybody.
  • 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 42
    thats right suckers! I own the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Please, don't all send your checks to me at once.

    • Re:Typical of liberals... (Score:5, Funny)

      by thryllkill (52874) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:42PM (#19044841) Homepage Journal
      "Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals."

      Isn't it great?!?!?!?!?!

    • Re:Typical of liberals... (Score:5, Funny)

      by ettlz (639203) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @06:44PM (#19044883) Homepage Journal

      Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals.
      Piss off, some of us are communists.
    • Lots of laws need to be broken. Bad laws disobeyed get them changed. How do you feel about the 'criminal' blacks that rode in the front of the bus in Mongomery Alabama in the 60's. Clearly criminal, but was it wrong?

      DRM is not about copyright infringement, it is about criminalizing not letting some one control how you use what you actually buy and pay for.

      I am sick of hearing that not paying some media giant every time you hear some song, or watch some movie is piracy. I do not think it is, and I do not think there is naything wrong with sharing it for free.

      What I think copyright piracy is, it to make counterfeit CD's DVD's etc and selling them for money.

      I see nothing at all wrong with sharing software, movies, songs, books, etc as long as you are not representing them to be original or charging for them.

      Is this the way the laws are today? , nope, cause we have corrupt politicos doing the bidding of the big media companies that finance their campaigns.

      So if my conscience tells me some law is wrong, unfair, or unjust, oh well.

      Bad laws need to be broken often enough to make them change.

      Looks at the 09 f9 thing, people have just had enough silliness with this.

      Cheers
       

    • Re:Typical of liberals... (Score:5, Interesting)

      by Dunbal (464142) on Tuesday May 08 2007, @07:09PM (#19045255) Homepage
      Making fun of the RIAA and the DMCA to justify pirating music. You are all criminals.

            First off, we're talking about DVD's and movies, not music.

            Secondly then if you want to live in a world where a corporation has the power to determine IF you are allowed to watch a movie you purchased, how many times, and on what equipment - then so be it. Most of us resent the very thought, much less this feeble and poorly thought out attempt at implementation.

            Thirdly, copyright infringement has only recently been made a "crime", in the US. In many other countries it's a civil matter. You know, I have never driven under the speed limit - mostly I have driven 15 to 20% over. Should I go to jail for that, too?

            I go to movies. I pay to go to the movies. Why do I have to sit through a 5 minute sermon on how evil piracy is when I paid to get there? Then again, when I buy a DVD, why the hell should I be FORCED to watch trailers and nowadays even ads? So I rip it, and get my right of choice back.

            While this code can be used to rip things and publish them on the internet, it's useful to me mostly to be able to see the movies I bought in the format I want. Call me a criminal if you will. I will call you a mindless consumer. Take what you're given and shut up. Leave those of us who want to DO something about the situation alone - when the REAL information revolution happens you'll have us to thank.

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