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When a master key for HDCP encryption surfaced last year , Intel hardly broke a sweat. It declared that nobody could use the key to unlock Blu-rays or other protected sources unless they got into the semiconductor business and "made a computer chip" of their own. Oh Mann, didn't they realize? That sort of language is like a red rag to a German post-grad, and now Ruhr University's Secure Hardware Group has produced the ultimate rebuttal: a custom board that uses a field programmable gate array ( FPGA ) board to sit between a Blu-ray player and TV and decode the passing traffic. Student price:200, and no silly bodysuits required.