Lex Fridman: preference

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…Yeah, pause the VM, dump the memory, ’cause there could, some of the codecs could have encryption. There could be like a DRM on there. So you need to dump the memory from a virtual machine. Like when I joined École Centrale Paris in 2003, Jon Lech Johansen basically broke the DVD specification and created DeCSS, showed us how he was breaking a DRM, which was MP4 FairPlay from Apple. What he did on his laptop, and I was young, I was 21, was just like mind-blowing because he was basically debugging Windows inside a type of VM with ex- Like, wow. It’s incredible. It’s mind-blowing and inspiring. Does it get, like from your experience and from what you’ve seen in the community, does it get discouraging? Does it get- People help you. People send you samples. People are keen. Sometimes you don’t have access to an encoder, so this is even more difficult because you just, you just ask and you have to ask for samples. I remember VideoLAN used to tweet for samples at one stage. “Hey, I need this obscure sample,” and-…

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