http://www.krunker.com/2006/12/28/happy-new-year-aacs-cracked/ Technology Around the World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:41:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.krunker.com/2006/12/28/happy-new-year-aacs-cracked/comment-page-1/#comment-36998 Was AACS really cracked? | Krunker Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:43:21 +0000 http://www.krunker.com/2006/12/28/happy-new-year-aacs-cracked/#comment-36998 [...] We reported yesterday that the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) copy protection scheme found on HD DVD was broken by a hacker named “muslix64″ over at Doom9. As expected, many media and technology companies decided to investigate whether this truly was a case of AACS being cracked and if it was, whether it would be as damaging as DeCSS was to DVDs. After some investigative work, many are stating that AACS wasn’t really hacked or compromised. If anything was compromised, it was the Cyberlink PowerDVD application that “muslix64″ used. [...] [...] We reported yesterday that the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) copy protection scheme found on HD DVD was broken by a hacker named “muslix64″ over at Doom9. As expected, many media and technology companies decided to investigate whether this truly was a case of AACS being cracked and if it was, whether it would be as damaging as DeCSS was to DVDs. After some investigative work, many are stating that AACS wasn’t really hacked or compromised. If anything was compromised, it was the Cyberlink PowerDVD application that “muslix64″ used. [...]

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