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1. In the News
- Hacker Exploits Chink in iTunes DRM Armor
2. Announcement
- 2004 Date Announced: Windows & .NET Magazine Connections
3. Event
- New--Microsoft Security Road Show!
4. Contact Us
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==== 1. In the News ====
by Paul Thurrott, [email protected]
Hacker Exploits Chink in iTunes DRM Armor
Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer who created DeCSS, the first widely used tool for decrypting the copy protection in commercial DVD movies, announced a similar hack this week for the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology that protects songs purchased from Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store. The hack, which Johansen calls QTFairUse, casts doubts on Apple's ability to protect the intellectual property rights of artists who sell music on iTunes Music Store and comes just a month after the company opened the service to Windows users.
Johansen posted QTFairUse to his "So sue me" Web site this past weekend. QTFairUse is a small command-line utility for Windows that shows developers how to bypass the security features in Apple's protected Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, which the iTunes Music Store uses. The utility doesn't create a workable, playable, protection-free music file, but its source code will help other hackers bypass Apple's DRM security in their own applications, eventually leading to a complete breakdown of Apple's licensed DRM system, FairPlay.
Critics have long alleged that in the past much of Apple's software-development advantage came from its small, tightly controlled market. Now that Apple is pushing DRM-enabled products such as the iTunes Music Store and the iPod into the wider Windows world, the company is finding out how difficult it is to control the teaming masses. This week's iTunes Music Store hack is actually the second time programmers have hacked the service in the past month and the third time this year. A tool called MyTunes, released last week, lets Windows users steal music that other Windows and Macintosh iTunes application users share for streaming, although it doesn't decode songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store; Apple patched a similar problem in its Mac version of the iTunes application earlier this spring.
Apple's primary competitor, Microsoft, created its own DRM scheme for its popular Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) formats but built renewing capabilities into the technology, which helps Microsoft survive security exploits. Whether Apple's FairPlay technology supports this renewing functionality is unclear at this point, and Apple has been characteristically quiet about its DRM use, preferring instead to foster the impression that the company is more customer-centric than Microsoft and less beholden to content creators. But the reality of the situation is that Apple has worked hard to strike deals with the recording industry and did a fantastic job of jump-starting the concept of inexpensive, downloadable, legitimate music. Let's hope that this DRM breach won't cause record companies to reverse their decisions to work with online music services.
==== 2. Announcement ====
(from Windows & .NET Magazine and its partners)
2004 Date Announced: Windows & .NET Magazine Connections
Windows & .NET Magazine Connections will be held April 4 to 7, 2004, in Las Vegas at the new Hyatt Lake Las Vegas Resort. Be sure to save these dates on your calendar. Early registrants will receive the greatest possible discount. For more information, call 203-268-3204 or 800-505-1201 or go online at
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==== 3. Event ====
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- Hacker Exploits Chink in iTunes DRM Armor
- 2004 Date Announced: Windows & .NET Magazine Connections
- New--Microsoft Security Road Show!
- See this section for a list of ways to contact us.
Network Testing Labs, one of the world's leading independent research companies, put together a comprehensive Comparison Paper on two leading enterprise monitoring solutions. Their conclusion: "The Argent Guardian easily beats out MOM in all our tests ... The Argent Guardian will cost far less than MOM and yet provide significantly more functionality." Find out for yourself why organizations like Major League Baseball, GE Capital, AT&T, Harley Davidson, and Nokia all rely on The Argent Guardian for their enterprise monitoring and alerting needs. Download this Comparison Paper now:
http://www.argent.com/products/download_whitepaper.cgi?product=mom&&Source=WNT
by Paul Thurrott, [email protected]
Jon Johansen, the Norwegian programmer who created DeCSS, the first widely used tool for decrypting the copy protection in commercial DVD movies, announced a similar hack this week for the Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology that protects songs purchased from Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store. The hack, which Johansen calls QTFairUse, casts doubts on Apple's ability to protect the intellectual property rights of artists who sell music on iTunes Music Store and comes just a month after the company opened the service to Windows users.
Johansen posted QTFairUse to his "So sue me" Web site this past weekend. QTFairUse is a small command-line utility for Windows that shows developers how to bypass the security features in Apple's protected Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, which the iTunes Music Store uses. The utility doesn't create a workable, playable, protection-free music file, but its source code will help other hackers bypass Apple's DRM security in their own applications, eventually leading to a complete breakdown of Apple's licensed DRM system, FairPlay.
Critics have long alleged that in the past much of Apple's software-development advantage came from its small, tightly controlled market. Now that Apple is pushing DRM-enabled products such as the iTunes Music Store and the iPod into the wider Windows world, the company is finding out how difficult it is to control the teaming masses. This week's iTunes Music Store hack is actually the second time programmers have hacked the service in the past month and the third time this year. A tool called MyTunes, released last week, lets Windows users steal music that other Windows and Macintosh iTunes application users share for streaming, although it doesn't decode songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store; Apple patched a similar problem in its Mac version of the iTunes application earlier this spring.
Apple's primary competitor, Microsoft, created its own DRM scheme for its popular Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) formats but built renewing capabilities into the technology, which helps Microsoft survive security exploits. Whether Apple's FairPlay technology supports this renewing functionality is unclear at this point, and Apple has been characteristically quiet about its DRM use, preferring instead to foster the impression that the company is more customer-centric than Microsoft and less beholden to content creators. But the reality of the situation is that Apple has worked hard to strike deals with the recording industry and did a fantastic job of jump-starting the concept of inexpensive, downloadable, legitimate music. Let's hope that this DRM breach won't cause record companies to reverse their decisions to work with online music services.
(from Windows & .NET Magazine and its partners)
Windows & .NET Magazine Connections will be held April 4 to 7, 2004, in Las Vegas at the new Hyatt Lake Las Vegas Resort. Be sure to save these dates on your calendar. Early registrants will receive the greatest possible discount. For more information, call 203-268-3204 or 800-505-1201 or go online at
http://www.devconnections.com
(brought to you by Windows & .NET Magazine)
Join industry guru Mark Minasi on this exciting 20-city tour and learn more about tips to secure your Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 network. There is no charge for this event, but space is limited, so register today! Sign up now for our December events.
http://www.winnetmag.com/roadshows/security2003dec
Free! "Admins Shortcut Guide to Email Protection" from Sybari
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;6574227;8214395;q?http://www.sybari.com/ebook
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