Crack-ers > Lock-ers

Cory Doctorow, em New AACS processing key leaks onto the net, afirma: DRM takes years and costs millions to develop. It is generally broken in days, by hobbyists, for free. That's because DRM relies on hiding keys in devices that users own and have unlimited control over, and because every single vendor has to implement its key hiding perfectly in order to keep the secret. All a hacker has to do is find one mistake, the weakest implementation, and it's game over.

Akma faz um comentário pertinente: Cory Doctorow repeatedly asserts as a matter of fact that it’s easier to break digital control mechanisms than it is to devise them — so that the value of a company’s investment in researching and implementing a digital control regime falls to zero as soon as an inquisitive hacker (or community thereof) puts some brain-hours into cracking the controls. I don’t know enough about the topic to assert that he’s right, but I know enough (from a murky past in programming and a clearer present involvement in tech conversations) to say that the claim sounds valid to me.

Eu continuo achando que essa revolução não será televisionada. Enquanto os 'ditos poderosos' continuarem na tentativa de bloquear o fluxo de conhecimento via criptografia, repressão e leis absurdas, a multidão estará se organizando para derrubar o status quo vigente. Não falo de uma revolução de trincheiras, de lutas. Falo da ocupação silenciosa espaços informacionais. Hacking!!!!