Cracking the AirPort Express

By Peter Rojas

Well that didn't take long. Jon Johansen, aka DVD Jon, aka the wiseass who took on the MPAA and cracked the copy protections on the DVD, is back (not that he ever went away, except for the once having been on trial part) with his latest hack. This time he broke the encryption Apple uses to stream audio from iTunes to the AirPort Express, meaning that, at least in theory, you could set it up so that any application could stream to the AirPort Express. You think Apple will freak out over something that makes the AirPort Express only that much more valuable and useful to people?
Yeah, probably.

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