Comment on Redbox’s disc rentals are over
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoIt’s possible, but with copy protections, it’s incredibly unlikely. You’d run an app on your computer or TV to decrypt and view the media, just like you do with Netflix or whatever.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
that wouldn’t stop someone from dropping a “media player” on the drive with your logo on it that’s actually malware. People unfamiliar with how it’s supposed to work would plug that in and run it without even thinking about it. I guess you could have the machine format the drive every time it comes back and have it test for counterfeits to prevent that though now that I think about it more.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yup, that’s the plan. You turn it in, it reimages it to whatever the next customer is likely to need, and if a customer asks for something out of left-field, it would reflash and take a bit longer.
Flashing on return is essential because it checks whether the returned item is still in working order, so it really wouldn’t be an issue.
cestvrai@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The USB port of the machine is also an attack vector.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Eh, I suppose, but they could design the USB drive really hard to infect. The more narrow your use-case, the more options you have to secure it.