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AACS hacked to expose Volume ID: WinDVD patch irrelevant
The DRM "protecting" HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc films -- AACS -- continues to unravel at the seams. In parallel efforts, hackers in both the Xboxhacker and Doom9 forums have exposed the "Volume ID" for discs played on XBOX 360 HD DVD drives. Any inserted disc will play without first authenticating with AACS, even those with Volume IDs which have already been revoked by the AACS LA due to previous hacking efforts. Add the exposed processing keys and you can decrypt and backup your discs for playback on any device of your choosing. So yeah, it looks like last week's WinDVD update has been quickly and definitively made useless just as we expected it would be. Well, for XBOX 360 HD DVD drive owners anyway but you can see where this is heading, right? Now go ahead AACS LA, revoke the Toshiba-built XBOX 360 HD DVD player... we double-dog dare ya.
Original Xbox thoroughly hacked
Our friend Eliot, from hack a day, has tipped us off to the latest and greatest in the Xbox hacking scene. TheSpecialist, a hacker on the xboxhacker.net forums, has managed to play a backup DVD without using a modchip/softmod. Eliot explains, "He ripped the challenge response data block from RalliSport Challenge and then patched that chunk into the firmware of the drive. So now, no matter what disc is placed into the drive, when the Xbox checks authenticity, the DVD firmware spits out the RalliSport Challenge code instead of checking the disk." Clever!Unfortunately, The Specialist didn't want to release the hack to the public, explaining, "I understand that releasing this hack would have major impact. Althought I serioulsy [sic] doubt that releasing a firmware *patcher* is illegal, I don't want to take my chances on it :-) I think anybody who wants to do something like that should ask himself if it's worth all the trouble he might get into. I feel it's not. That's why I'm not releasing anything."How long before the hack is readily available for everyone to use?[Thanks, Eliot]
