Crackers Tune In to Windows Media Player

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Crackers Tune In to Windows Media Player

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @05:00AM from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

jamshedji writes "Crackers are using the newest DRM technology in Microsoft's Windows Media Player to install spyware, adware, dialers and computer viruses on unsuspecting PC users."

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What's with /. running months old news? by funkdid · 2005-01-11 05:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Ok I'll admit it. I did a search on Limewire for some "adult" type content. Every single movie I grabbed up tried to get me to install some piece of software in order to watch the movie. 1800fastsearch, etc. I was annoyed that the spyware companies had gotten their tentacles this deep in porn. Those bastards, is nothing sacred?

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1. Re:What's with /. running months old news? by drafalski · 2005-01-11 05:23 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  tentacles this deep in porn
  
  Seems like a "5, Funny" joke is lurking in there somewhere...
2. Re:What's with /. running months old news? by Rorschach1 · 2005-01-11 05:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Hey man, lay off the tentacle porn - some of us LIKE that!
No no no, all wrong by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2005-01-11 05:03 · Score: 2, Funny

You people have it all WRONG, DRM was meant to Stand for Digital Rights Manipulation, it's actually a Microsoft feature.
Crackers? by deft · 2005-01-11 05:10 · Score: 4, Funny

Has anyone told Chris Rock that crackers are doing this?
He'll be pissed.

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Re:It's like sun on your wedding day? by Sardak · 2005-01-11 05:16 · Score: 3, Funny

..to install spyware, adware, dialers and computer viruses on unsuspecting PC users. I think I'd be unsuspecting too if some program tried to install a virus on me.
Simple rule of thumb by karnat10 · 2005-01-11 05:23 · Score: 4, Funny

This has kept my computer safe and my mind happy for the last twenty years. I don't plan to change it:

Don't buy products from Microsoft!

There is one exception: The Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse is a great product. You can't fuck up a mouse, though.

Wait, Apple's round one-button mouse.

Now, that's a deal: Apple could learn from M$ how to design mice, while Steve explains to Bill what an Operating System is.
It could be much worse by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-11 05:31 · Score: 2, Funny

Guys, it could be much worse. It's not like WMP is forcefully bundled into the world's most popular desktop OS or anything....
Re:Hackers, not Crackers. by jefftp · 2005-01-11 07:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Crazy crackers, first eminem... now this.

Seriously, Slashdot needs to give up the nerd dictionary crusade. Hacker is a bad guy with a computer. Cracker is a white guy.

You won't see people referring to bundle of kindling wood as a faggot anymore--languages evolve new meanings. If you tell someone you threw a faggot on the fire last weekend you'll end up in jail for a hate crime.