Coders to Apple: “We’ve got the remedy for your restrictions”
Thumbing their noses at Apple’s misguided attempt to thwart non-iTunes management of the latest iPod offerings, a group of talented coders has successfully reverse-engineered the SHA1 hash that Apple quietly slipped into the database upon which iPods depend:
After free software coders around the world have succeeded in circumventing each and every one of Apple’s freedom-restricting efforts, you’d think the company would get the message. We paid for our iPods. We paid for our music. We will use them however we want, and we don’t appreciate it when you try to tell us otherwise.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go use gtkpod to put some new music on my iPod Mini.
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[...] Apple Rocker Report wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt Thumbing their noses at Apple’s misguided attempt to thwart non-iTunes management of the latest iPod offerings, … us otherwise. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go use gtkpod to put some new music on my iPod Mini. Posted in daverea.com ( 5 links from 4 sites) [...]
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