Despite Intel’s assertions, HDCP is now crackable in software

Despite Intel’s assertions, HDCP is now crackable in software
It’s only been a couple of weeks since Intel confirmed that the HDCP master key was real. At the time, Intel warned that the movie industry shouldn’t start panicking, because only new hardware could decode content streams using the master key. “They’ll need a chip,” Intel said, and if anyone makes that chip, they’ll sue […]
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Apple TV (2nd generation, late 2010)
The original Apple TV, announced in 2006 and released in early 2007, was Apple’s first take on providing media streaming to the living room. Four years and three software updates later, the Apple TV remained just a “hobby,” to use the word repeatedly uttered by Apple executives to describe the product. With the release of the new second-generation Apple TV, Apple has dramatically changed the …
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