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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."
What a peon.
Administrators can turn PatchGuard off at boot time. He didn't break it.
He turned it off then installed an unsigned driver.
3). It hasn't been tested.
It works fine, the actual PMP-disabling code hasn't been tested because I don't want to touch that. But my code ran in kernel-mode, which means it's possible. Read up a bit on computer architecture and you'll see that as long as you have access to the kernel, you're God on the machine (Apart from hypervisor machines and/or additional hardware -- which PMP doesn't currently employ).
You havent tested this. I could care less if your driver is loaded. Microsoft knows that 3rd party driver certificates are going to be stolen/compromised. Microsoft hasn't even provided a method to reject unsigned drivers yet (per MSDN it will be in Vista SP1). Did you happen to hook one of the kernel functions PatchGuard is monitoring? Try to patch CI.DLL and see what happens. You can disable driver signing. You cannot disable PatchGuard.
I'm not saying that you can't bypass Microsofts DRM restrictions. I just don't think you have and the burden of proof is on you.
Enjoy,
It's just the normal noises in here.
Ummmm, no. You asked for citations, and I gave them. The personal insults are gratis.
Sorry, I somehow broke the third link, it should have been 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.
> Nowhere in said pages is information related to Microsoft paying GoDaddy.
You're aware, aren't you, that GoDaddy still hosts their real (non-parked) sites on Apache, aren't you?
> Nowhere in said pages is information related to Microsoft paying GoDaddy. Only information which indicates GoDaddy switched and Microsoft was very pleased was to be found.
Dude, you're killing me. GoDaddy selected IIS on its technical merits over Apache. And I'm the Queen of England.
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Mod me offtopic, troll, whatever, but I've had it. Slashdot needs editors for it's editors!
, but he claims to be currently looking into the details of safely releasing his details about this at the moment though.
First off, redundancy - details of safely releasing his details - not really incorrect, but poorly worded anyways. I'm more concerned with releasing his details about this at the moment though. What the fuck?