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"The Win32k filter is already used in Edge, however at the moment only Microsoft can use it as the executable signature is checked before allowing the filter to be enabled." I find this disturbing and anti-competitive. Microsoft is clearly giving Edge an edge here (pun intended).
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Windows has it's own crypto api, I'm pretty sure the drivers would use that. And why would game companies want to kill streaming? It's free advertising, not to mention that they all probably dream of making the next dota.
> And why would game companies want to kill streaming? Never underestimate the power of human greed. Apple (with iTunes) has proved that the availability of unprotected content doesn't hurt the bottom line, and when I go into a store today and buy a physical CD-ROM it more often than not lacks any copy protection. And this has been the situation for years. Meanwhile, the movie industry is soundly asleep at the wheel…
Are you implying that people still use DVDs or Blu-rays?
If you are, I got genuinely curious, because in Brazil at least, I'm quite certain they got nearly extinct. Here, is Netflix, cable (or satellite), online "channels" as HBO-Go or torrent.
Based on that, it appears to me that consumer demands already won.
This seems somewhat impossible to maintain.
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> And why would game companies want to kill streaming? Never underestimate the power of human greed. Apple (with iTunes) has proved that the availability of unprotected content doesn't hurt the bottom line, and when I go into a store today and buy a physical CD-ROM it more often than not lacks any copy protection. And this has been the situation for years. Meanwhile, the movie industry is soundly asleep at the wheel…
> Meanwhile, the movie industry is soundly asleep at the wheel and its execs don't recognize that the consumer demands (near-instant access, no copy protection, no unskippable FBI warnings, no unskippable teasers, and no freaking region lock) have greatly diverged from their offerings. Are you implying that people still use DVDs or Blu-rays? If you are, I got genuinely curious, because in Brazil at least, I'm quite c…
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Windows has it's own crypto api, I'm pretty sure the drivers would use that. And why would game companies want to kill streaming? It's free advertising, not to mention that they all probably dream of making the next dota.
> And why would game companies want to kill streaming? Never underestimate the power of human greed. Apple (with iTunes) has proved that the availability of unprotected content doesn't hurt the bottom line, and when I go into a store today and buy a physical CD-ROM it more often than not lacks any copy protection. And this has been the situation for years. Meanwhile, the movie industry is soundly asleep at the wheel…
Is it just me, or does it seem trivial to MitM this HDCP API by just faking out the certificate chain, then faking out the method return values? > Fortunately this doesn’t compromise the security guarantees of the original API because of the way Microsoft designed it. To prevent a MitM attack against the API calls (i.e. you hook the API and return the answer the caller expects, such as HDCP is enabled) the call is se…
You know what I'm waiting for? When game manufacturers start to require HDCP. The outrage of the youtube gamer kiddies (I personally dislike them all, but hey, they got enough influence) when they can't stream their stuff any more is going to be priceless and maybe enough to finally burn down the HDCP/DRM towers. Or when someone develops a malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the x.509 code. I mean, if it's prope…
I suspect we will see a divergence between "gamy" games and story based games; with the latter being harsher of streamers.
So tomorrow Microsoft ships an update for Windows that causes a runtime function to call an additional Win32k function and suddenly Chrome crashes? This seems somewhat impossible to maintain.
Is it just me, or does it seem trivial to MitM this HDCP API by just faking out the certificate chain, then faking out the method return values? > Fortunately this doesn’t compromise the security guarantees of the original API because of the way Microsoft designed it. To prevent a MitM attack against the API calls (i.e. you hook the API and return the answer the caller expects, such as HDCP is enabled) the call is se…