*Source: CrunchGear (
http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/11/pat...-to-your-hd/)*
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With ever increasing concerns about mob interest (
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74) in cracking DRM, TiVo has added its own layer of protection to defend hacks into content. In a recently issued patent (
http://www.patentmonkey.com/PM/patentid/7216235.aspx), TiVo describes use of an encryption key technique that has so many possible combinations that the ability to crack it could take billions of years of number crunching.
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