Microsoft's Windows Media DRM cracked

Windows Security : Microsoft's Windows Media DRM cracked

Posted by Max on 2007/7/16 13:14:26 (788 reads)

Even though the Zune is not the most popular portable media player, there is an ongoing battle between Microsoft and hackers who have found ways to crack Microsoft’s DRM

Ars Technica confirmed that the latest attacks on Microsoft's Windows Media DRM work as advertised. Using an update of the Individualized Blackbox component (IBX), FairUse4WM can now remove DRM for Microsoft IBX versions 11.0.6000.6324 and earlier, on both XP and Vista.

The release of the update was first announced on the Doom9 forums, where user 'Divine Tao' indicated that he found a way to update FairUse4WM to support new keys (v1.3 Fix2). It would appear as though 'Divine Tao' is not working with the same hacker(s) who broke the Windows Media DRM code last summer, as the user says that access to the FairUse4WM source code is not possible for him or her. ('Divine Tao' is an anagram of 'viodentia,' however, which is suspicious.)

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