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http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,11418_9_16_1,00.html
Are SDMI Technologies All Hacked?
Chiariglione Says No One Knows Yet
By Jon O'Hara
Saturday , October 14 01:05 a.m.
As members of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, or
SDMI, prepared for their October meeting in Los
Angeles on Friday afternoon, executive director
Leonardo Chiariglione had some harsh words for
those claiming an early victory for the hackers in the
organization's public challenge to defeat its selected
security technologies.
''When a publication makes such a completely wrong,
unfounded, anonymous slander, I think it deserves a
very strong answer,'' Chariglione told Inside, referring
to a report appearing on Salon.com Thursday citing
anonymous sources that claimed each of the six
technologies offered up for hacking by the SDMI had
been compromised. ''It's simply not true, because we,
ourselves, don't have that information. We have about
450 files, with 450 descriptions of methods -- you
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:56:21PM +0200, Axel H Horns wrote:
http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2000/10/12/sdmi_hacked/index.html
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SDMI cracked!
Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection
system.
By Janelle Brown
Oct. 12, 2000 | Watch out -- recording industry executives are about
to start running for cover. All of the Secure Digital Music
Initiative's watermarks -- its much ballyhooed music protection
scheme -- have been broken. A spokesperson for SDMI has denied the
reports, but according to three off-the-record sources, the results
of the Hack SDMI contest are in and not one single watermark resisted
attack.
[...]
Is there an alternate solution, though? Many SDMI members think there
isn't one -- and that this could mean that SDMI will now implode for
lack of any plausible ideas for how to meet the recording industry's
demands for secure music.
[...]
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