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Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed
An anonymous reader writes "James Laird has reverse engineered the Airport Express private key and published an open source AirPort Express emulator. 'My girlfriend moved house, and her Airport Express no longer made it with her wireless access point. I figured it'd be easy to find an ApEx emulator — there are several open source apps out there to play to them. However, I was disappointed to find that Apple used a public-key crypto scheme, and there's a private key hiding inside the ApEx. So I took it apart (I still have scars from opening the glued case!), dumped the ROM, and reverse engineered the keys out of it.'"
Does being pro-freedom make you a good guy? Does believing that everyone should have free access make you a good guy? Does helping your others make you a good guy?
Free software ideology isn't about the end product, it isn't chocolate versus vanilla, it is about process and access: how do we choose what gets made, how do we make it, who gets to make it and who gets access to what has been made?
Two words : Hans Reiser. If you want to claim some sort of moral high ground because of your position on how software should be made then it *has* turned into a religion.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
As a slaveholder, I'd prefer that negroes not be allowed to run away from their masters. You might disagree, and think that other people's property should be "free", but it doesn't make you a good guy.