Security researcher Alex Ionescu claims to have successfully bypassed the much discussed DRM protection in Windows Vista, called Protected Media Path
, 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
Alex Ionescu has found a way of fooling Vista into believing DRM is working when it’s not. It allows premium content such as HD-DVDs to be played on an uncertified computer
. This is quite different from the method used by muslix64 to circumvent DRM by locating the DRM key in the binary image of a DVD player program such as WinDVD
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department restyles their recruitment page in the mode of Frank Miller’s Sin City — via Warren Ellis
Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, said that the wildly successful site will start sharing revenue with its millions of users
Microsoft acknowledged offering to pay a blogger to correct what it said were errors in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia
Scientists have built a tiny memory chip that uses new technology to pack a relatively large amount of information into a square about one-2,000th of an inch on a side. Although the chip is modest in capacity — with 160,000 bits of information — the bits are crammed together so tightly that it is the densest chip ever made. The achievement points to a possible path toward continuing the exponential growth of computing power even after current silicon chip-making technology hits fundamental limits in 10 to 20 years
Computer experts have traced a $1 million online bank heist in Sweden to a Russian hacker known only by his colourful sobriquet — the Corpse — in one of the more brazen Internet banking crimes of recent memory
A New Jersey state appellate court yesterday affirmed that any personal information given to ISPs must remain private. Yes, this indicates that New Jersey, like a lot of states, is ahead of the curve on Internet privacy,
said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based digital rights group
Google’s German web site was waylaid for two hours because its address was mistakenly reassigned. The temporary takeover of the site just after midnight was not the result of a hacker attack. Rather, it appears that the German organisation that assigns domain names, the DeNIC, made an error and registered www.google.de as available and immediately gave it away
Europe is upping the pressure on Apple to open up its restrictive DRM that ties iTunes to the iPod. Norway ruled last year that the iPod-iTunes tie-in was unreasonable and gave Apple a deadline to make a change to its policies, but was unsatisfied with the response they got. Now France and Germany have joined forces with Norway, making it a lot harder for Apple to just walk away from those markets
The British Broadcasting Corporation said Monday that it was in discussions with the search engine company Google about putting some of the BBC’s programming on the online video site YouTube
The plaintext exploit used to partially crack HD-DVD a couple of weeks ago was brought to bear on Blu-Ray by the same gents this weekend–and it worked a treat
Australians are likely to miss out on the option of upgrading to Microsoft’s new Windows Vista and Office 2007 software through a new Internet download service
Record companies are considering ditching DRM for their MP3 albums. For the first time, flagging sales of online music tracks are beginning to make the big recording companies consider the wisdom of selling music without rights management
technologies attached. Most independent record labels already sell tracks digitally compressed in MP3 format, which can be downloaded, e-mailed or copied to computers, mobiles, portable music players and compact discs without limit. Partially, the independents see providing songs in MP3 as a way of generating publicity that could lead to future sales. Should one of the big four take that route, however, it would be a capitulation to the power of the Internet, which has destroyed their monopoly over the worldwide distribution of music in the past decade and allowed file-sharing to take its place —l via Slashdot
As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista to the masses, disparate Linux camps are banding together to prepare a counterattack. The Open Source Development Labs is merging with the Free Standards Group to form The Linux Foundation. The goal of the new group is to streamline efforts and help the open-source operating system compete more effectively against proprietary platforms. Community groups, universities, and industry players — including HP, Hitachi, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Novell, NEC, and Oracle — are coming together under the new flag
MySpace.com has filed a lawsuit against the self-proclaimed Spam King
for allegedly blasting the portal with spam through the use of compromised user accounts. MySpace also seeks a permanent injunction to bar Scott Richter, who has fought with Microsoft and the state of New York over spam, and his affiliates from using the popular social networking site, according to a MySpace announcement
Researchers have been able to encode an image into a photon and to later retrieve it intact. It’s analogous to the difference between snapping a picture with a single pixel and doing it with a camera — this is like a 6-megapixel camera… You can have a tremendous amount of information in a pulse of light, but normally if you try to buffer it, you can lose much of that information… We’re showing it’s possible to pull out an enormous amount of information with an extremely high signal-to-noise ratio even with very low light levels
Banks and credit card companies are rushing to notify their customers to keep an eye out for fraudulent activity on their accounts after several retailers discovered thefts of customer data from their computer systems. TJX, the parent company of Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and several other national chains, said hackers breached a system that handles credit card, debit card, and check transactions in the United States and Puerto Rico. The company also said there is a possibility the breach is as far-reaching as the United Kingdom and Ireland
Apple plans to open up protected music and movies content bought from the iTunes Store. The iPod maker is expected to make two announcements this week — the first will be to allow streaming of protected AAC content via USB; the second will be to licence its Fairplay DRM to the company’s Made For iPod licencees
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