Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It appears that Apple may have altered the firmware of newer iPods so
that they require a proper cryptographic hash in the iTunesDB loaded
onto the units or they won't work. This effectively blocks people from
using third party software with an iPod, including the various
programs people use on Linux with iPods.
http://ipodminusitunes.blogspot.com/2007/09/apple-cuts-us-off.html
And, within a few days, the open source folks have reverse engineered
it. The presence of magic numbers in the algorithm makes one assume
that this was intended as more than a simple hash integrity check, but
the brief time required to find them leads one to believe the
mechanism was not a very effective protection (though it isn't even
clear what it was intended to protect against.)
http://ipodminusitunes.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-won.html
Perry
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