OK, for everybody that doesn't really follow computer/security news out there: the security scheme for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray (the competing formats for DVD successor) is broken. One of the ways to break it was to recover an encryption key, a special number used to decode the contents of the discs before playing. Every player on the planet must have some key that is able to decode discs, and a few Hackers were able to extract one of them. The number was published online on a few geek-news sites. Intimidating take-down letters were sent to websites hosting this number to force them to take them off the web. Of course that didn't work quite as expected, generating more revolt and catapulting the number into stardom. The story was covered in the NY Times, for example. For completeness sake, the number (in hexadecimal notation) is "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0". A few really creative ideas of how to publish it came up, but I guess my favorite so far is this song [YouTube]. This is a really perfect example of how stupid people can be, making a celebrity of something they were actually trying to hide...
UPDATE:
OK, I guess I now have a tie for favorite [YouTube].
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uh? that wasn't English, that was Chinese!
Karola.
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