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- Where there's a will there's a way. Hackers are already figuring out how to override restrictions on the iPhone limiting it to AT&T network use, reports the The Wall Street Journal. Step-by-step instructions are being posted on the web by hackers such as the infamous DVD hacker Jon Lech Johansen instructing users how to use the iPhone's browser to connect to the web via Wi Fi without having to sign up for an AT&T contract.

- Movie studios have developed a new strategy to thwart hackers who break encoding protections shipped with store-bought DVD, according to The Wall Street Journal. New Blu-ray and HD-DVDs are being embedded with 128-digit passwords that can be changed once the code is broken, requiring a subsequent software download to play them on a PC. The system was developed by the industry group Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, founded by Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, Toshiba and Microsoft. The group has already changed the code once, sending out a "self destruct" signal disabling computers from playing discs formatted before February. So far the system only applies to computer DVD players.

Comments

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

New Blu-ray and HD-DVDs are being embedded with 128-digit passwords that can be changed once the code is broken, requiring a subsequent software download to play them on a PC.

God, that's incorrect.

I think there needs to be a Pulitzer prize for "Most mangled story."

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

They often get techie-things wrong, which amuses me in the "digital edition". I get it, you're TV people. Don't you know a single person you can hire to understand digital media and the interwebs? Series of tubes?