The funny story of the latest AACS key leak
Ed Felton of Freedom To Tinker satirized the idea of "protecting" a number with his 128 bit number generator, which issued unique numbers to all who asked for one. The comment section became a stream of people threatening legal action if anyone else published their number, but in amongst the smart-assery was a hidden gem:
Here's mine:
45 5F E1 04 22 CA 29 C4 93 3F 95 05 2B 79 2A B2
What are the odds that this is the new processing key?
(Hint for arnezami: uv=00000047)
Amezami is the name of the hacker who originally leaked the first key and, as it turns out, that is the next compromised key in the AACS chain. The odds that Felton's toy picked that number at random are pretty slim so, who took the cookie from the cookie jar?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
