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by gruez 980 days ago
>AFAIK at this point most of the "ripping" of decryption keys/etc for streaming content happens not by attacking the TPM, but by using android devices that are allowed to skate with reduced security modes, and just having a giant stack of them so when one device gets banned they throw it away and move onto the next.

Without a TEE (eg. trustzone), you're not going to get anything above 540p, at least with widevine. Note TEE is baked into the SoC itself, so while it's not impossible to find a bug, it's much harder than finding a exploit in android or system apps.

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I unfortunately can't find references at the moment, but I've heard that some/most of this is done with nVidia Shield TV boxes which have the same Tegra X1 security flaws used to exploit the early Nintendo Switches.