“…The Xbox security system is intended to allow people to play only videogames authorized by Microsoft. Huang’s paper ‘shows how a person could defeat that system with a small hardware investment,’ said MIT Professor Hal Abelson, one of Huang’s advisors. ‘More importantly, the paper relates the security vulnerability to a general design flaw shared by other high-profile security systems such as the government’s Clipper Chip and the movie industry’s Contents Scrambling System (CSS) for DVD players.’
“Huang contacted EFF in March after his advisors told him that his preliminary findings raised potentially significant legal questions. With the help of Boston College law professor Joe Liu, EFF worked with Huang, Abelson, and MIT administrators to analyze the legal issues and draft letters notifying Microsoft of Huang’s research findings and intended publication, one of the steps encouraged by Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)…”
Click here to read the full EFF press release. The Slashdot discussion is here.
