Hacker unlocks Microsoft security

Date: July 16, 2007
Source: news.yahoo.com


A member of the Doom9 Forum known only as "Divine Tao" claims to have defeated Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) platform for securing the distribution of digital media files over the Internet. According to other Forum members who have already downloaded it, the new utility program for PCs running Windows XP and Vista not only works wonderfully but can even run on Microsoft's Zune player.

Divine Tao's exploitation of a chink in Microsoft's armor merely represents the latest clash between the software giant and members of the multimedia underground who believe they have the right to store archival copies of the copyrighted multimedia files they purchase in the event that their hard disks ever crash.
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