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Vista DRM Cracked by Security Researcher
An anonymous reader writes "Security researcher Alex Ionescu claims to have successfully bypassed the much discussed DRM protection in Windows Vista, called 'Protected Media Path' (PMP), which is designed to seriously degrade the playback quality of any video and audio running on systems with hardware components not explicitly approved by Microsoft. The bypass of the DRM protection was in turn performed by breaking the Driver Signing / PatchGuard protection in the new operating system. Alex is now quite nervous about what an army of lawyers backed by draconian copyright laws could do to him if he released the details, but he claims to be currently looking into the details of safely releasing his details about this at the moment though."
Why yes, Microsoft fanboi, since you're obviously "informationally challenged", how about reading:
Microsoft Corp. today announced...
or here
or This month's survey brings one of the largest one-month swings in the history of the web server market, as Microsoft gains 4.7 percent share while Apache loses 5.9 percent. The shift is driven by changes at domain registrar Go Daddy,
or The largest movement of sites from Apache to IIS was once again at Go Daddy, with over 1.6M hostnames moving from Apache to IIS this month.
Or just try Googling "Microsoft GoDaddy", you'll get the idea.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Look, stop instigating.
I didn't know I was instigating anything. I was pointing out the lack of details in the original post. NT internals are of interest to me.
If you do a little bit of research as to who it is that cracked this you will see that he is more than capable of doing what he says he did.
I know who the author is and I respect him. He is not Dave Cutler, Linus or even Mark Russinovich (neither am I).
Adding ZwQuerySystemTime() or ZwOpenFile() wrappers to support a reversed engineered kernel isn't that impressive to me (Note, I haven't looked at ReactOS, I don't know if Alex added those system calls or not).
Per the latest article on PatchGuard over at http://uninformed.org/, Microsoft has disabled some of the hacks for PatchGuard in shipping versions of Vista. I'd like a summary of which hack worked (All I can test with is 2003 Server). No one has posted an article on hacking ci.dll, I'd like a little more information on that.
It seems to me that you have an agenda here, will you kindly fuck off?
No, I won't Fuck Off and your very rude. I have no agenda other than preventing Microsoft from owning my legally purchased Windows based computers. Its still my computer (my home, my car, etc). and I still have a right to dictate what programs get run. Yes I run Linux. Yes I have a few Macs.
It has been compromised, it was only a matter of time. end of story.
Agreed. Is the result reproducable? With the information in the orginal post, it is not. Again, I may have missed a link to a more detailed article.
Enjoy,
It's just the normal noises in here.