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Monday, September 28, 2009

Does this SEO thing have any truth to it ?
(posted at 01:56PM BST)

I think we should find out!

Monday, September 21, 2009

No such thing as the DMCA in the UK!
(posted at 09:08PM BST)

These are the OS signing keys for different Texas Instruments calculators.

The key for the TI-83 calculator was first published by someone at the unitedti.org forum in this message.

He or she needed several months to crack it and the other keys were found after a few weeks by the unitedti.org community through a distributed computing project.

The keys make it possible to sign your own operating system for the Texas Instruments calculators.

Texas Instruments now contacted several people with a DMCA notice to take down the keys from their websites.

Some of the websites which got a DMCA notice are: unitedti.org, brandonw.net and reddit.com.

One of these DMCA notices can be found here: http://brandonw.net/calcstuff/DMCA_notice.txt

Here are the three keys:

TI-83 (Plus):

n=82EF4009ED7CAC2A5EE12B5F8E8AD9A0 AB9CC9F4F3E44B7E8BF2D57A2F2BEACE 83424E1CFF0D2A5A7E2E53CB926D61F3 47DFAA4B35B205B5881CEB40B328E58F p=B709D3A0CD2FEC08EAFCCF540D8A100BB38E5E091D646ADB7B14D021096FFCD q=B7207BD184E0B5A0B89832AA68849B29EDFB03FBA2E8917B176504F08A96246CB d=4D0534BA8BB2BFA0740BFB6562E843C7 EC7A58AE351CE11D43438CA239DD9927 6CD125FEBAEE5D2696579FA3A3958FF4FC54C685EAA91723BC8888F292947BA1
e=11

TI-84 (Plus):

prp77 factor: 67070508990537181066342707695603050521324524613874331879259881495826493920589
prp78 factor: 186923771200711284770368041572205320486346816476524340240220962467860568859381

n=EF5FEF0B0AB6E22731C17539658B2E91E53A59BF8E00FCC81D05758F26C1791CD35AF6101B1E35 43AC3E78FD8BB8F37FC8FE85601C502EABC9132CEAD4711CB1 p=94489014C63CC9E1E1ADB192DBBDD1F78F90A630DA9C86EFC4CBCA44E5B4D54D q=19D431AF2794229620B884E3750D622D1C74F2E4569DC15486FC8D5A3BCDFE2F5 d=2A3E1B2010F318D9BD7C7E19300980B055A0E2A9554B77E7142E23CDF7C7CA13C233A3D462FDFC 968B1F9CEAF2AC2CF305147992AD9E834192ACEBB517DB9941
e=11

TI-89:

prp76 factor: 2231124525637629443181963045297394875470510167130210300957267082210173784611
prp79 factor: 3226885534240147415018248397410101286362761128614350056368675111071170873486957

(these are factors of 71995834568684773636720438651160472297127884480206535156843307841378050889714332 73011970552138960583799368215373582308591928985045059261105298431035818727)

These keys are posted as a public service to the Internet community as the DMCA is not applicable under UK law and being the owner of this site, the server it lives on and the network which it is hosted on makes me best placed in fighting any attempt by Texas Instruments to have it taken down.

You cannot copyright a number; especially a private key which, by definition, has not been published by Texas Instruments but has been discovered independently by a third party.

I wonder if TI have heard of the Streisand effect ?

 
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