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MS DRM Version 2 - Cracked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the protected-media-files dept.

As the title says: Microsoft Digital Rights Management Version 2 has been cracked. The Register has the story, including a link to a downloadable zip file which contains source code, explanation and a small DOS utility. Grab it while you can. You can also read the explanation directly here, and you can also find it with Google.

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Just like deCSS by teraflop+user · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    This is just like the deCSS hack - a good piece of work exposing a flawed implementation of a rights management scheme.

    However, at the moment two little differences are apparent:

    1. This doesn't allow you to decode .wma files on Linux - the decoder still requires the MS dll to get the keys out for you.

    2. The author has remained anonymous! No DMCA prosecutions here, assuming she has covered her tracks properly.

    1. Re:Just like deCSS by Sneakums · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      The author has remained anonymous! No DMCA prosecutions here, assuming she has covered her tracks properly.

      Why do you assume the author is female? As a member of the oppressed, much-maligned male minority, I find this most offensive.

  3. irresponsible by option8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    how utterly irresponsible and ridiculous that HeUnique insists that we "Grab it while you can."

    encouraging the slashdot community to go and download a piece of code that breaks a well-known and popular security methodology, quite possibly breaking the law in the process, simply because they can? how infantile and myopic.

    oh, it's not that i object to the public breaking another MS Standard, or the ease with which the source is now distributed around the 'net.. i'm concerned for the poor schmuck who runs the webserver that is now so totally and irrevocably screwed by the slashdot effect.

    please mirror :)

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  4. She ? by bockman · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Assuming is true, jou just made it 50% easier to find out who _she_ is. Maybe more, 'cause woman teechies this good are not common (uhm, maybe we have to rethink about it).

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  5. Re:to no end by MrFredBloggs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Its you against 5 moderators, buddy! :)

  6. Re:All I can think of is... by unitron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Once upon a time the number of the post was usable as a chronological order indicator as well. Supposedly this was changed as part of a larger strategy to make achieveing first post less attractive, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. I'd just as soon see the old way brought back.

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    I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.