iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked

fooishbar writes "Yesterday, Apple released iTunes 4.5, which deliberately broke the 4.2 authentication scheme, which had been successfully reverse-engineered. However, crazney has been at it again, and within 24 hours of downloading iTunes 4.5, has broken the new scheme, and added more features to this library along the way. If you want to incorporate iTMS support in your program, give libopendaap a go!" Reader ScottGant submits this story about the Pepsi/iTunes promotion: "News.com has this story about Pepsi's iTunes promotion give-away. The promotion, which is slated to end this Friday, was to have given away 100 million tracks through Apple's iTunes music site. But according to Apple on Wednesday, only about 5 million free songs have been redeemed."

Comments

Re:Why do "free" songs require credit card numbers

[YrWrstNtmr]

That's because for a "free" song you had to give them your credit card number.

No, you didn't. I got two free, no credit card required.

Re:Why do "free" songs require credit card numbers

[DiscoOnTheSide]

I dunno what iTunes *YOU* were using, but I never had to give my credit card # and I'm on free song #9 and counting...