Comcast just announced that it has completed its digital conversion in Washington and begun encrypting premium cable channels. That ends a complicated transition that began late last year and forced "expanded basic" customers to add conversion devices to all their TVs.

Hmmm, it's nice to know that encryption can be done on that scale, but I wonder how long it will take to be compromised on a wide scale. It's seems unlikely that they are using a different key for each box ...