Did you know that your camera enabled computer can spy on you? Did you know that by watching that video or playing that cute game you may be allowing a site to watch you? Did you know that YouTube (via s.ytimg.com) seems to be one such site?

Lean how stop this here.

I was in Wikipedia today and and got a cookie request (from Firefox) for s.ytimg.com - of course I blocked it, third party cookies for cryptic domains are usually questionable. But the fact that it turned up while I was in Wikipedia made me wonder what it was.

So I looked into it...  then I unblocked it.

Following the news of BackupHDDVDs success in bypassing AACS and allowing HD DVDs to be backed up, rumours are starting to spring up about a similar bypass to Blu-ray disks.

It is being suggested that the new Playstation 3 is being used to rip and decrypt Blu-ray disks.

If true, then I suspect that it not BD+ content that is being bypassed as the spec for doesn't seem to have been finalised yet, but even so.

It has been interesting to watch events thus far unfold as a community of skilled individuals sprang up around BackupHDVD, and as of a couple of days ago it has been positively confirmed that AACS has been bypassed.

In one of those interesting twists of fate, I was discussing HD related DRM with some friends on Boxing Day and then on the 27th a utility called BackupHDDVD gets announced. It's already got a Wikipedia entry.

As it happens I had made my decision to not adopt Vista before I found the following report, but it underscores a number of my concerns about the platform.

Peter Gutmann (of Auckland university) has produced A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.