Thursday, August 12, 2004
Fancy!
Anyone remember the guy in Norway that was under fire for writing software that cracked DVDs or something? Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen ring a bell? Well, he's doing stuff again, and this time he's taken on the big "A".
Cool beans, if I do say so meself, which I do, so it is. I'm sure he'll get slammed for "viciously and maliciously exploiting and hacking the sanctity of Apple's products" or some other line, but I'm rooting for him. I think it's awesome that there are people out there who are happily smashing all the borders that have been put up in the tech world, even at risk to themselves.
¶ 7:14 a.m.
Anyone remember the guy in Norway that was under fire for writing software that cracked DVDs or something? Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen ring a bell? Well, he's doing stuff again, and this time he's taken on the big "A".
Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen has cracked the Apple Lossless encryption used by the Airport Express to communicate with iTunes, so that programmers can write tools that use any application and any operating system to send audio to an Airport Express.
Cool beans, if I do say so meself, which I do, so it is. I'm sure he'll get slammed for "viciously and maliciously exploiting and hacking the sanctity of Apple's products" or some other line, but I'm rooting for him. I think it's awesome that there are people out there who are happily smashing all the borders that have been put up in the tech world, even at risk to themselves.
¶ 7:14 a.m.
