Well, really I just rail at the ancient Bruce Sterling "Information wants to be free" mindset which is, on close examination, a load of old bollocks. Best argument against it I ever saw was "My medical records do not want to be free" which sort of nuked that one from orbit.
But putting that aside, it's not the key that is weak. They key is strong. It was the implementation of a particular piece of software which was bad. If the software hadn't been created then none of this would have happened as nobody was going to start reverse engineering the hardware to attempt to extract the keys. Well, not until the SERIOUS organised crime syndicates decided they wanted to make money from pirating again.
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Date: 2007-05-04 11:02 am (UTC)But putting that aside, it's not the key that is weak. They key is strong. It was the implementation of a particular piece of software which was bad. If the software hadn't been created then none of this would have happened as nobody was going to start reverse engineering the hardware to attempt to extract the keys. Well, not until the SERIOUS organised crime syndicates decided they wanted to make money from pirating again.