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iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked

Posted by michael on from the powered-by-mountain-dew dept.

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."

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  1. I got one of these bottlecaps... by LilMikey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    but the effort of doing what needs to be done to dl them in linux then convert them/remove the 'bad' parts so that it plays where I want it to is just too much...

    Besides, NPR past shows are all free on the internet anyway.

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  2. Re:Only five million? by chrome · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, I hear that hot chick in Pepsi's Marketing division wants to marry you ...

  3. Re:Only five million? by Methuseus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Have both! I'm sure neither one would mind....

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  4. Re:Only five million? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, she is 4'6", but she only weighs 120 lb. She *enjoys* running every morning, and she actually loses weight after each kid! I'd say more, but she'd probably kill me if she ever found out. :-)

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  5. Re:Only five million? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I'm 6'2" so we do make quite a pair. But she's not *that* short. Women are just generally shorter than men, and many of todays women easily fall under the 5 foot mark. As a result, I find the idea of anyone being under 4'11" being classified as a midget suspect. Perhaps for men, but definitely not for women.

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  6. Re:Only five million? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, the parent post confused me. I rechecked. She's 5'6". Doh!

    Sometimes it really sucks being such an easily confused individual. :-(

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  7. Re:Only five million? by DreamerFi · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There are all kinds of people (a.k.a. "kooks") who are now trying to tell you that Aspartame is bad for you

    Thank you for calling me a kook. I know from personal experience what it can do to a person. Perhaps I'm hypersensitive to this crap, but sure as hell I'm reading packaging to make sure I never get it into my system again. You probably won't believe me or think it was something other than aspartame that was working on my seratonine levels, but I sure as hell am not going to prove it by ingesting it again. And I do know that should I ever meet somebody at VP level from Coca Cola or Pepsi, I will break his or her kneecaps.

    -John

  8. Re:Only five million? by nitehorse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes, and DDT is perfectly safe! It certainly doesn't cause cancer, or poison entire food chains and it absolutely wasn't responsible for the near extinction of both the peregrine falcon and the bald eagle.

    Please.

    Just because the aspartame-industry-funded research finds no serious problems with aspartame (huh, I wonder how that might be possible?) doesn't mean anything. There is still no serious data about the long-term effects of consistent sustained aspartame intake, either. So your claim is complete bullshit.