I mean, agreed, but how is that relevant here?

Security by obscurity is no security at all. If you can’t publish the details of a system and have it still work, it was never secure in the first place.

Opulence, I has it.

It would for all the financial industry that refuses to move to a real 2 factor system.

I don’t remember what I was downloading the other day, but I ended up on SourceForge. I forgot that existed too. Don’t visit without an ad blocker though.

This already been solved by public key cryptography? Sign the video with your private key, and publish the public key. Anyone can prove that the video is valid. To prove that the public key is valid, anyone can encrypt a message with it and asked for verification.

This was my biggest miss too. The porn industry had predicted the winner in all of the previous format wars, so when it settled on HD-DVD I thought that was the end of it.