A line of hex - 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
Hihi all!
I’m sat here moving a royal fucktonne of data from one NAS Server (Debian) to my new NAS server (solaris nv_62).
100Mb/s Is sooo slow! and I don’t have a spare intel/Pro1000 knocking around, so Im going to be here for a while, The reason for this kindof ties into the Sun and solaris topics in my ‘to ramble about list’ below. But I’ll fill you in with more details when i’ve got the new server up and running.
So anyway, Im using this time to re-read emails, read interesting web articles, and generally reflect on the weeks news.
One thing that makes me laugh is how much trouble, rambling, and gigabits of data storage one line of hex causes!
This line to be exact:
09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0
As i’m sure anyone who reads this blog will know, Its the HD-DVD decryption key. Such a secure and well designed system that it took hackers a whole day to crack! LOL!
Now I’m not going to use this as a chance to get all ‘Freedom of speach, knowlege is power, hell yeah’ etc on you all.. But seriously.. Just google the string!
‘Results 1 - 10 of about 157,000 for 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0. (0.07 seconds) ‘
There are even hundreds of random images in the google image search with the string as the title.
OK, so this key, and what can be done with it was big big news for the tech masses, and therefore this is probably a crap example. But i just find it cool, that when something like this comes out. Every techie stands together and makes this information available wherever they can, like an unspoken rule between users, Even though they may be calling each others mom’s over some argument on slashdot they day before. People will talk to each other for the sake of getting and sharing this key, and then pass it on even if threatened not to.
Now i’m not saying it’s ’sweet’ or ‘amazing’ or ‘life changing, and that It brought a tear to my eye’ :P…. I just think it’s cool that the internet is still a very open place.
But, it could just be that i’m currently nocturnal, and my body clocks soooo messed up I am talking drivel! Ahh well!
//Matt