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Well, cracking 100 years from now will probably be much harder. For example, could CSS be as easily cracked if you didn't know it was for DVD video and didn't
by cafebeen 12y ago
Well, cracking 100 years from now will probably be much harder. For example, could CSS be as easily cracked if you didn't know it was for DVD video and didn't have access to a working reference implementation?
Either way, we're surely capable of leaving a better legacy than what we currently have.
- xamuel 12y agoEven if DVD codecs are 100% opaque to future historians, recall that no video of any format existed until the 20th century, and widespread ubiquitous video recording didn't exist until the 21st. If we're entering a dark age now, what does that make former ages?
- WalterBright 12y agoExactly. Note the dearth of photographs of the Titanic. Just a handful, and that was a major project.
- cafebeen 12y agoI agree that the "dark age" designation is not the best (and perhaps sensational), but the basic issue of how to maintain digital data isn't worth writing off...