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Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption

Posted by michael on from the airport-express-sales-increase dept.

womby writes "DVD Jon has just announced that he cracked the encryption in Apple's AirPort Express. 'I've released JustePort, a tool which lets you stream MPEG4 Apple Lossless files to your AirPort Express. The stream is encrypted with AES and the AES key is encrypted with RSA.' No real details of the process employed in cracking the unit but newsworthy none the less."

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  1. Oh good by cubicledrone · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    All Apple does invent one great product after another:

    iPod
    G5
    Powerbook
    OS X
    Cinema Display

    (for openers)

    and they invest millions to make inexpensive music downloads available (at almost no profit). But they don't sell shovelboxes at $299 each, so let's kick Apple in the face again. Sounds great.

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  2. The fun part of this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...will be all the gnashing of teeth here from the Apple fanatics talking about how he is destroying a good product.

    The funnier part will be the inevitable Asshat who will say "I hope Apple sues him...", as if Apple is the only successful thing in their life.

    Anyway, the real hackers will give him a round of applause because a thing worth owning is a thing worth hacking.

    P.S. The only thing Apple's legal team is good at is sending threatening letters to Apple Fan sites that publish a picture of a new Mac a few days early.

  3. Re:What exactly does this guy have against Apple? by donutello · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If it was open source, he wouldn't have had to crack it now, would he?

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  4. Re:Lawyers, start your engines. by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    quality, not quantity, thats why England rules. shame our priminister has his tongue so far up george bush's arse, bush is using blairs tongue as a cod-piece.

  5. Or just don't buy apple by radish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are a number of companies out there making wireless and wired music playback devices. Most have more features than Apple's. Many (if not all) allow you to stream whatever the hell you like to them. I use a Squeezebox, the server code is open source perl, the hacker community is encouraged by the manufacturer and is very active making cool plugins and add-ons. I still don't get why people pay the money for the locked down DRM-infested Apple junk and then wait for DVD Jon to hack it for them.

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