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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.
Interesting. I asked for citations and you responded with personal insults. Your capability to convince people of the correctness of your position needs a little work.
Also, while the links (only two of which work) you cited don't contradict your position, they only half support it. 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.
This isn't to say it didn't happen, but I did ask for information related to your insinuations, which you have not yet provided.
Also, I'm not any sort of "fanboi." I have no love for any corporation. I also have no hatred. I find the energy required to maintain such emotions is wasted on such entities.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
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.
If you're really that dense, maybe you should re-read things a few times until you get it, rather than ask other users to go out of their way to accommodate your lack of observational skills (which like all skills can be improved if you get off your ass and do it).
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.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
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?
No, you get ACs trolling against you like me right now (that's right fuckers, mod me down if I didn't just ruin the fun of it) because your original post, the one that started it all, was fucking off-topic. If you can't comprehend something then that's fine, maybe we can do an Ask Slashdot where you can have a whole forum to whine about how you don't get it, and how just a little handholding will help prop you up against the cold cruel world of having to use your fucking brain, but until then it's got Jack and shit to do with Windows Vista or DRM or cracks against DRM and Jack just left town.
You had every piece of information necessary to comprehend the original joke right in front of you. If you are slow or something you could have read it over a few times until it made sense. Instead you whine, and you get modded up for it because the quality of moderation has been on the decline for a very long time, and as you see in this example the method of that decline is self-reinforcing: idiot gets modded up, other idiots see this and post more idiocy, and as this happens more idiots get mod points and the cycle repeats itself. Similar to what happens when you let just anyone vote.
All I am doing here is my own kind of whining to see where the mods stand. Apparently they reward regular whining, but they don't care for anti-whining whining. Maybe they will like my anti-anti-whining whining. Mwa hahahaha.