Aw, fuck. He blew the punchline halfway through the video.
These super special "Encrypted CD-Rs" from an earlier era (which contain a Windows-only driver you must install to do anything with them) limit you to a 10 character "password". I'll bet some XOring is involved too.
These seem to the be the last 5 specimens left of this product. I wonder if he'd mail the one he used to a hacker who can report on what this piece of shit software actually does.
@progo Wow.
That is SOME Security there...
@BlueDouche @progo remember, until the late 90s, encryption was considered a munition under US law, so pretty much everything called "encrypted" actually wasn't really at all
@BlueDouche @progo that was part of it. EFF teamed up with O'Reilly to publish the source code for software and hardware DES crackers since books weren't munitions but source code on a computer was, as a demonstration of how retarded the law was about encryption. I have said book.
Oh he did hand it over to hackers. He sent an image of the data track of a used disc to his Discord…
"Within a day, we learned that the 'password' is stored… on the disc." Readable.