license for BurningMan enabled OPS/pv2tool/avidownload/etc
I propose adding certain requirements to the license for BurningMan enabled OPS, pv2tool, avidownload and any other programs that would include it's unlock code. The gist of it would be to require the user who is unlocking their camera/camcorder to leave in place the "Remember, Remember.." splash screen that would be automatically installed by the program. Only when running the program on Nov 5 would the user have the option of reverting to the default screen and permanently unlocking their camera/camcorder. Already permanently unlocked devices would not be subject to the requirement to leave the "Remember, Rember..." splash screen in place. Would this be permissible since BurningMan was dropped in our laps without any license and so is presumably public domain?

I would agree, but has anyone even been able to change the spash on Linux or OS X? also, can anyone contact fawkes.effigey about liscensing/reverse engineering the code?

Would one-time brute need to be used to find the keys? Or can the keys be taken from BurningMan?

Someone (brite_eye?) pointed out during the Cronus episode that the courts have held that keys are not protectable as IP as long as they are just arbitrary numbers. But... I wouldn't want to bet my lifestyle on that without seeing the legal precedent case and getting legal advice. Posting the disassembled code here is not that good. I imagine that it contains code belonging to fawkes.effigy + copyrighted library code from the compiler product used to build it (Microsoft? Borland?). For the Cronus technology I showed everyone where it was posted (by PD) on the 'net and I described the algorithm. Beyond the code copyrights, the BurningMan program clearly contains challenge encryption details which Pure Digital considers (I assume) to be a trade secret. Judging by the lengths which fawkes.effigy took to remain anonymous, this information is possibly a "misappropriated trade secret" - it doesn't "smell" real good to me. We don't know clearly that this is a misappropriated trade secret. But from my reading of the laws, it is the user's responsibility to ensure that the information they have been handed was not misappropriated. For the app which yielded Cronuskey information (i.e. 01-04 challenges) we could clearly verify the source since it was publicly available on Pure Digital's web site. We have no apparent way to verify the source of the BurningMan application.

If admins feel the decompiled log is not right for this site...do your job & delete.

I don't know that we're at that point yet... like ents, we admins try not to act with haste. There are some admin discussions ongoing about this, but Public discussion and feedback is important also.