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Microsoft Windows Media Player Encryption Hacked

Posted by Zonk on from the he-sure-is-a-busy-fella dept.

NubKnacker writes "Here we go again. The Register has the story about the encryption in Windows Media Player being hacked by DVD Jon. From the article: 'Jon Lech Johansen has reverse engineered a proprietary algorithm, which is used to wrap Media Player NSC files and ostensibly protect them from hackers sniffing for the media's source IP address, port or stream format. He has also made a decoder available." This has been pending for some time now. Do you see a reason to install Windows/WMP just to be able to view a webcast?"

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  1. To bad this doesn't help me by martin_b1sh0p · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Last night I decided to check out the MTV VMAs because I saw a commercial on MTV that said you can watch online, on demand, in total control.

    Well I fired up FireFox on my Linux desktop and went to http://overdrive.mtv.com/ and low and behold it said: "We're sorry, you're running a Unix system.".

    Well, ok, let me go over to the wifey's XP desktop and fire up FireFox. Low and behold it says you must be using IE.

    Well unfortunately IE has never worked properly on my wife's computer. So I'm basically SOL as far as MTV is concerned. Oh well.

    What would help me would be a plug-in for FireFox that sends a custom post/get header thingy that let's me tell the web server that I'm on a Windows OS running IE (even though it's FireFox on Linux). I know Opera let's you say you're IE but it doesn't let you change your O.S.