snipped-for-privacy@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net (T>> Sort of how the FCC has pretty much admitted that anyone with a*Somewhere* in the TV set, the signal has to get decrypted, before it can be presented to the CRT, or other actual 'display'.
>> modicum of technical knowledge will be able to defeat the broadcast >> flag.
> I think you've mentioned this before, but what does it mean? The
> system as originally conceived requires the digital representation of
> flagged content to be protected by encryption on bus and media. I
> have more than a modicum of technical knowledge and I don't see an
> easy way around the proposed system in concept. Has the original
> system been abandoned? Or are you aware of some implementation flaw?
Thus there *is* a "cleartext" signal running around inside the box.
Thus, someone with a reasonable amount of skill can 'tap' the cleartext signal, and "voila!"
And there's always the "idiot method" -- just point a camcorder at the TV.