Monday

Someone felt as average as I did this morning and went on a shooting rampage through the city. Or something. News is garbled. At a train station, which should come as no surprise ... murder in Melbourne is much more likely to occur at a Connex-related venue.

It's not actually funny.

On a lighter note. Terrribly unenthused about WorkWork this morning ... I am desiging some software by saying "make it work like this other software that's really good and open source and anyone can download and use for free". If you look up "Pointlessly Futile" in the dictionary there would be a picture of my sad face and a note to "See also: Tautology".

90 9F 11 20 9D 63 D4 5B C7 42 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

You might see a Hexadecimal number somewhat similar to this:

90 9F 11 20 9D 63 D4 5B C7 42 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

popping up on the internet.

It's the encryption key for HD-DVD players.

"90 9F 11 20 9D 63 D4 5B C7 42 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" ... isn't actually the key, because sites are being taken down for publishing it, despite the fact that there is no way of protecting a number or string. But anyway, I don't want Google to block my blog.

The whole exercise demonstrates the futility of trying to block access to media. If you can access the hardware (and we all have to in order to play the stupid video or music), you can break ANY encryption. That's just the way it is.

It's all just maths!!