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Johansen Cracks AirPort Express Encryption
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."
This is so wrong! No one should hack or crack apple products because apple is teh best!!!11!one They are the ones trying to be fair with their DRM! When apple makes DRM IT IS A GOOD THING! why cant these people hack other company's products instead of apple. why hurt a company that gives so much?
How is he a dumb fuck?! He just doesn't give a shit for petty politics (DMCA crap). It's alright you know, jealousy is a natural emotion.
First he cracks Fairplay, now this. What's his beef? Apple did not drag him into court. Apple seems to be a good open source neighbor so far.
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.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
...Even though your relatively clever, try not to be stupid. (emphasis mine)
That would be "you're".
...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.
Apple needs to stay friendly with the music industry
is that why they ripped off Apple Music's name then renegaded on a 20year contract not to get involved with music and now are being sued by the beatles for the 3rd time (and AAPL have lost every case) ? ever wonder why a Mac doesnt have speakers with it ?
friendly to good ol American greed
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.
I'm no fan boy but to say that DVD Jon should be applauded is plain idiocy. Let's pretend you folks actually write software for a living. Active term here being for your living, your frigging livelihood. You the know, the way you can afford your internet connection and that cool overpriced silicon filled plastic box processing the bits you're reading this on, and some schmuck "hacks" your software, so that it can serve some purpose other than you intended in your original purpose for writing the software. All your work, your time, and possible profit that would enable you to mod your silicon filled plastic box and pay your isp for your internet connection now gone since some self absorbed dingle berry can feel smart to other hacker's around the world? You're your software is now being used whatever way people feel, not to mention, they are using it for free, since it was probably pushed out via torrent. Seems fair doesn't it?
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.
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"