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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)
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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…

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[–] Tekchip@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your mistake here is in assuming removing DRM isn't trivial. As someone who's pirated games for literal decades I have enjoyed many a DRMed game on launch day. DRM is security theater just like the chumps at the airport who routinely are found to be missing 99% of contraband.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is really interesting to me, how easy is it to remove drm? How reliable? Just lookin for some convo, not arguing as I don’t really know much about cracking games, movies etc

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally DRM removal tools are written by hackers dedicated to hacking DRM or pirating software. So for people who specialize in that field, they are very good at it and can defeat basically any DRM system.

For an end user, that means all you need to do is to download the specific tools for your use application, run it and presto the DRM has been removed.

An analogy would be you buy a product that is locked inside a box. You can learn how to pick locks yourself, or you can take it to a locksmith and have them remove it for you, which is trivial because that's all they do.

If you are expecting a bunch of Lemmy users to explain to you in ELI5 terms the technical underpinnings of how a lock works and how to defeat one, well lol that ain't going to happen.

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes I am aware that hackers are the ones who crack and make tools and then sell to users.

Thanks anyway, shouldn’t be that hard to explain if it’s trivial to do

Should also know pretty easily how reliable the technique is if it’s done so often, I’d let the original person I was talking to reply instead of interjecting your smart ass response.

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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