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Okay, now things are getting confusing. Hot on the heels of his <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/010107hacked/">announcement</A&gt; that he had hacked HD DVD's Advanced Access Content System (AACS) digital rights management (DRM), muslix64 claimed to have done the same to Blu-Ray's implementation, with the help of anti-DRM crusader Janvitos. You can read the whole saga at the <A HREF="http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120869">Doom9 forum</A> but we'll just give you the juicy bits: "In less than 24 hours, without any Blu-ray equipment, but with the help of Janvitos, I managed to decrypt and play a Blu-ray media file using my known-plaintext attack."

"You are the greatest."

And, if you still feel like reading on this particularly frigid Friday, check out <a href="http://themultipurposesolution.blogspot.com/2007/01/our-world-here-has-… You Can Go To Jersey, Or You Can Go To Hell entry</a>.

Huckleberry is one smug kitty.

My continued use of my desk is the bane of Bagheera's existence.

Well, <I>Wired</I> tackles 40 of 'em. The other two are up to us.

Evan Thomas and Jeffrey T. Richelson have written books that chart the CIA's legacy of arrogant wrongheadedness.